Re: Solid Al or stranded Cu primary wire

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Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>

Hi Bob,

I would definitly use the copper wire.

Cheers,

        Terry

At 11:39 PM 1/8/2002 -0500, you wrote: 
>
>     Subject pretty much says it all. I have some of both, even if either are
> not as effective as the good ol' standby I would still like to use one or the
> other since they were given to me. However, if it's going to be a futile
> attempt I'd rather put my time into something else. The stranded Cu came from
> an old well to power the pump some 200 feet down. I would be guessing at
> about 4 to 0 ga. wire. The Al is solid 10 ga. Original use is unknown at this
> time. It's been used and re-rolled into a messy 10" coil. I think I can
> straighten it back out to make more of a neat coil out of it. 
>     My coil specs are.... Ok, I haven't actually built one yet but this wire,
> assumed usefull, will get me on my way. I do have a 15Kx30ma NST and a 4"pvc
> sewer pipe secondary wound with 1800 turns of salvaged 26 ga wire(about 14").
> And a six pack of rootbeer SW caps.
>     Any thoughts?
>  
>     Thanks,
>         Bob Bozarth
>