Re: AWG vs. Diameter

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Original poster: "Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <acmq-at-compuland-dot-com.br>

Tesla list wrote:
> 
> Original poster: "Ed Phillips by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<evp-at-pacbell-dot-net>
> 
> To get the benefits of stranded cable the individual conductors MUST be
> insulated from each other!  "Litz" wire is composed of many strands of
> fine, INSULATED, wire.  For example, #10-38 is composed of 10 strands of
> #38 insulated wire.

And litz wire is used not because of skin effect, but to avoid eddy
currents in the wire caused by varying magnetic fields. The same idea
that causes iron cores of transformers to be split in many thin
insulated
plates.

Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz