I've never had an XLPE cable on my hands. Anyone that has experience with XLPE cable and PVC, can tell me if XLPE is slightly less thick than PVC?
For example, for a 6 mm2 cable in PVC and a 10 mm2 cable in XLPE, could I say they are almost the same (XLPE slightly thicker, but not as thick as a 10 mm2 PVC cable)
Today I was checking a cable, and to my eye it felt slightly slimmer than I'm used to but the owner told me with the hand in the heart that it was 10 mm2, but I could not trust it, so I picked two PVC 6 mm2 and 10 mm2 I had in the car and the cable was exactly in the middle in thickness (I did not had the tools to measure it), and this freaked me out, because at least in my country is very rare to find cables in the middle of 6 and 10 mm2 (at least in the popular shops).
So, my conclusion was that MAYBE it was XLPE, but this was just a supposition.
For example, for a 6 mm2 cable in PVC and a 10 mm2 cable in XLPE, could I say they are almost the same (XLPE slightly thicker, but not as thick as a 10 mm2 PVC cable)
Today I was checking a cable, and to my eye it felt slightly slimmer than I'm used to but the owner told me with the hand in the heart that it was 10 mm2, but I could not trust it, so I picked two PVC 6 mm2 and 10 mm2 I had in the car and the cable was exactly in the middle in thickness (I did not had the tools to measure it), and this freaked me out, because at least in my country is very rare to find cables in the middle of 6 and 10 mm2 (at least in the popular shops).
So, my conclusion was that MAYBE it was XLPE, but this was just a supposition.