WLC6 — Sensing cable for water leak detection, 6 m

WLC is a Vutlan sensing cable that detects leaks along its entire length — not at a single point like a spot sensor, but wherever the cable has been laid. Liquid shorts the conductors in the braid, the resistance drops, and the connected sensor immediately reports an alarm to the data logger.

The 6-meter version lets you cover two adjacent cabinets or the entire perimeter of an air-conditioning unit. It is a sensible compromise between coverage and ease of laying the cable in a cramped server room.

Key information

Basic features:

• Linear detection: alarm from any point along the cable, not just from a single spot

• Section length: 6 m — ready-to-use, factory-terminated cable

• Diameter: 6.5 mm — the cable can be routed under raised floor tiles and in cable trays

• Detected liquids: clean, contaminated and distilled water, acids, alkalis, alcohols

• Maximum detection run length: 100 m per sensor

• Mounting: on standard and metal surfaces; do not lay on mesh floors

• Reusable: after drying, the cable returns to normal operation

Applications

A 6 m section is enough to loop all the way around a precision air-conditioning unit or to cover the base of two rack cabinets standing side by side. It is also often laid along the condensate drain route.

What else you will need

The WLC cable does not work on its own — it connects to a VT591 or VT594 sensor, which in turn connects to a Vutlan data logger (e.g. VT335G, VT825G, VT855G). The sensor and data logger are ordered separately. One sensor supports a detection run with a total length of up to 100 m, so shorter sections can be joined into a longer route.

Leak monitoring in practice

Leak detection makes sense when the alarm reaches someone in the middle of the night. If you are looking for a complete notification system — temperature, humidity, water leaks, power, cabinet access — check out the EnviSensor data loggers and the CE MonitorApp software in our range.