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Re: coherers



Original poster: "Ed Phillips by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <evp-at-pacbell-dot-net>

Tesla list wrote:
> 
> Original poster: "davep by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<davep-at-quik-dot-com>
> 
> >>        Indeed, however Multi strand wire, even if not
> >>        formally insulated, may act insulated...
> 
> >       The wire I have here is all galvanized and measures a very low
> > resistance between strands.
> 
>         hmmm.
>         I suspect that the voltage from the meter is rather
>         higher than that driving the potential eddy currents.
> 
> > Somewhere there's an old picture which may be hung with plain
> 
> > steel wire, and I'll dig that out and measure the "insulation".
> 
> > If I could find some wire that appeared suitable I'd make
> > a model of the detector for experiments, and see if it would
> 
> > work.
>         Or (While not volunteering to do so....): make
> 
>         the model and try several sorts of wire...
> 
>         best
>         dwp

	I would if I could find wire that wasn't too stiff to go around the
pulleys properly!

Ed