Re: Aluminum wire in an NST

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Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <Mddeming-at-aol-dot-com>

In a message dated 7/26/01 10:17:35 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
tesla-at-pupman-dot-com writes: 



>
> I agree with Malcom.  Even though aluminum may be paramagnetic, I don't see 
> what detrimental effect this would have on using it for a secondary.  I am 
> not suggesting it because as was mentioned before it is a poor substiture 
> for copper in most if not all tesla/pulse applications especially because 
> copper magnet wire can be scrounged up for a very small amout of cash.  If 
> you get AL wire cheap then by all means, use it.  I'm not sure of the exact 
> figure but AL is around 150% more resistive than copper.  Any effects from 
> the wire being paramagnetic would be EXTREMELY miniscule (nill). 
>
> --Mike 



Make that 164% more resistive, per CRC Handbook of Chemistry & Physics. 
Matt D.