Cable Specifications - National Instruments NI 9852 Operating Instructions Manual

Cabling Requirements for NI 9852
This section deals with cabling specifications, termination
resistors, cable lengths, and the number of CAN nodes that can
exist in a system.

Cable Specifications

Cables should meet the physical medium requirements specified in
ISO 11898, shown in Table 3. Belden cable (3084A) meets all of
those requirements, and should be suitable for most applications.
Table 3. Specifications for Characteristics of a CAN_H and CAN_L Pair of
Characteristic
Length-related resistance
Length-related
capacitance:
CAN_L and ground,
CAN_H and ground,
CAN_L and CAN_H
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Wires
90 mΩ/m nominal
30 pF/m nominal
11
Value
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