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Using skin effect



Subject:  Using skin effect
  Date:   Sun, 20 Apr 1997 18:19:27 +0500
  From:  "Alfred A. Skrocki" <alfred.skrocki-at-cybernetworking-dot-com>
    To:   Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>


At the frequencies we are using most of the current flowing through 
the primary windings should be in the outer most layer of the 
conductors (skin effect). Has anyone compared the performance of a 
copper tubing primary to a silver plated copper tubing primary. It 
would require a heavy silver plating to insure that all conduction 
was going through the silver and not the copper. In theory if all of 
our primary currents are traveling only through the outer few mills 
of the conductors we may be able to use silver plated plastic tubing 
(maybe garden hose for really large coils) for inexpensive primaries 
that may very well yield better efficiency's than copper tubing and 
be a heck of a lot easier to work as well! BTW does anyone know of 
any equation to calculate the depth of conduction for a given 
frequency, I vaguely remember seeing a formula for calculating the 
depth of skin effect for a given frequency. This would expedite the 
determination of what thickness the plating should be.

                               Sincerely

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