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Re: AC grill primary



Original poster: "Jim Lux" <jimlux-at-earthlink-dot-net> 

And, bear in mind that stainless steel (or chrome plated regular steel) is a
terrible conductor.  However, though, maybe you could copper plate it?
What's skin depth at 100 kHz?
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Sent: Thursday, December 25, 2003 6:42 AM
Subject: AC grill primary


 > Original poster: "K Wilson" <teslamap-at-hotmail-dot-com>
 >
 > While walking around the side of my dads house yesterday my eye caught the
 > perfect spiral of the metal fan grill on top of the air conditioning unit.
 > There's 5 or 6 bars radiating from the center to hold the spiral in place
 > that would have to ground or cut off. There's about 14 turns, and the
metal
 > looks like 10 AWG (0.1 in) stainless steel.
 > Inside diameter = 6 in
 > Outside diameter = 20 in
 > 2 turns per inch
 > L at turn 14 = 64 uH
 > These dimensions and inductance values are almost identical to the ever
 > popular 0.25 in copper tube, with 0.25 in space between turns.
 > My question is how can I convince my dad to let me disassemble his air
 > conditioning unit?
 >
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