What it connects and why it matters
The FCE313025A200 is a factory-terminated encoder cable from the PacDrive 3 range, built to carry position feedback from a 40 mm servo motor (S615 connector) back to a detached servo drive (M17 connector). At 2.5 m (8.2 ft), it covers the typical distance from a drive cabinet to a motor on a machine frame — long enough for a panel-to-machine run, short enough to avoid signal degradation on the shielded pair. The shielded cable construction is the critical detail here: servo drives generate PWM noise that couples into unshielded feedback lines, causing position jitter or encoder fault alarms. This cable's shield bleeds that EMI to ground before it reaches the drive input.
Active production — one less spare to worry about
Schneider lists this encoder cable as an active catalog item — no end-of-life notice, no last-time-buy clock. For a maintenance-spares purchaser, that means you can buy one for the cabinet now and another next year without a cross-reference hunt. The metal connector shells (M17 and S615) hold up to repeated mating cycles on the factory floor — the M17 is the drive-side interface common across PacDrive 3 servo systems, while the S615 mates directly with the motor feedback port.