Original poster: "Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz" <acmdq@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tesla list wrote:
Original poster: "Gerry Reynolds" <gerryreynolds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
The work that Dr Gary Johnson did for AC resistance seems to solve
the Rac/Rdc problem for round wires (no proximitry effects).
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The following table shows
this for wr/sd up to 8.
wr/sd Rac/Rdc
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1 1.020
2 1.263
3 1.763
4 2.261
5 2.743
6 3.221
7 3.693
8 4.154
A simpler calculation, assuming that all the current is concentrated in
a ring with thickness equal to the skin depth and external radius equal
to the wire radius, results in:
Rac/Rdc = (wr/sd)^2/(2wr/sd-1)
The table above becomes:
wr/sd Rac/Rdc difference
1 1.000 -2.0%
2 1.333 +5.5%
3 1.800 +2.1%
4 2.286 +1.1%
5 2.778 +1.3%
6 3.273 +1.6%
7 3.769 +2.1%
8 4.267 +2.7%
The error is negligible in comparison with the more exact formula. So,
the basic skin depth formula can be used with round conductors quite
well.
Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz