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Re: Using skin effect
Subject: Re: Using skin effect
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 18:17:56 +0500
From: Jeremy Bair <pwac-at-flinet-dot-com>
Organization: PWAC
To: Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
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Tesla List wrote:
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> 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
>
> Alfred A. Skrocki
> alfred.skrocki-at-cybernetworking-dot-com
Interesting... How would other materials compare? For example, I have a
whole Utility room FULL of Bronze plating kits. And how flexable would
this coat be?
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