Re: thin wire

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

Hi Jason,

I did some quick calcs and the wire would have to take 2.5 to 3 amps RMS with
15kVA in.  That suggests like 14 ga. wire (maybe 16 or 18 since there is a
large cooling surface).  The high power folks can, and should, confirm my
numbers here but I think #26 wire may fry.

Cheers,

        Terry


At 12:49 PM 1/30/2001 -0500, you wrote: 
>
> How high of a bang size or overall power could 26 guage wire take on a
> secondary? I can get a whole bunch of really nice 26 guage silver plated
> copper wire w/ kynar insulation for a secondary coil but I want it to go on
> my next system which could run up to ~15 KVA, but I don't know if it will
> handle a 20 joule bang size or 10000 watts and above. I know that thin wire
> works very well on small systems and I have run 28 guage wire on a secondary
> up to 2kva without any problems but that was only a 2 joule bangsize and
> several hundred bps. I don't want to blow this thing apart on its first run!
> What do you all think?
>  
> Jason Johnson