Re: litz wire

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

In a message dated 3/30/01 2:18:51 PM Eastern Standard Time, tesla-at-pupman-dot-com 
writes:

> Hello All,
>  
>  I am thinking about building a TC and would like to know if LITZ wire were
>  used for the secondary, would overall performance improve?  Also - has
>  anybody tried to use a TC to power an x-ray tube and if so - I'd like to
>  know the gory details.
>  
>  Thanks
>  
>  --jeff

Jeff,

Litz wire won't improve the tesla coil's output.  It's been tried,
and gave no advantage.  The amount of loss in the secondary
wire is small, so that's why it doesn't help:

   http://hometown.aol-dot-com/futuret/page3.html

click on theory.

John