Re: stranded vs. solid wire

[LTM-at-SUBSONIC-dot-com (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)]

Hi Bill

   At the second annual So. Cal. Teslathon, a friend of mine took his TC with a
home made nine strand Litz secondary. It out performed his five strand space
wound secondary from last years Teslathon. 
   He's in the process of proving or disproving this theory as we sit at our
computers now. He will have his findings posted on his site soon and has told
me he will let the list know when testing is complete.
  

      Shawn T. Ferrell
          COIL ON


  At 05:27 PM 07/27/2000 -0600, you wrote:
>
> Original poster: "Gomez ADDams" <gomez-at-netherworld-dot-com> 
>
> Back when I was on this list about five years ago (has it really been that
> long?), I seem to recall a thread about solid vs. stranded wire in large
> secondaries.  The arguments (both sides) being made, as I recall, were that
>
> A) solid wire has more conductor where it counts- on the periphery of the
> wire,
>
> B) yet stranded wire has more actual surface area around the outside.
>
>  My question is, all theory aside, has anyone actually verified a difference
> by experimentation, or have solid, documented evidence of one being superior
> to the other in actual practice?
>
>  ie; has anyone built two identical secondaries, one with (for example) 12ga
> stranded, the other with 12ga solid wire?  If that gauge sounds ridiculously
> large for a secondary, keep in mind that I'm currently working on a large
> coil which will have over 5,000 feet of wire in the secondary.  Feel free to
> post whatever gauge info you have.
>
>  Thanks in advance,
> Bill / Gomez / Arkoff
>
> ...........................................................................
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