Re: [TCML] Trouble with eBay wire

[Jim Lux <jimlux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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>From: Ed Phillips <evp@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Jul 1, 2008 7:01 AM
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>Subject: Re: [TCML] Trouble with eBay wire
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>Turned out the wire length was actually estimated by weight."
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>	Magnet wire is normally sold by the pound and not by the length.  No one is going to reel small wire off and onto a spool while metering it.




And, you were using, I think, AWG 24?  That's about 1.25 lb/1000 ft. or, about 570g..  If the scale weighs to an accuracy of an ounce, (which might be common for someone selling wire, usually in 10-100 pound lots), that's 5% accuracy.  

If you weight


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