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Re: slide choke wire size?

Original poster: "Mike" <mike.marcum@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
A few turns at a time lol. When I wound my smalller 10awg one on a 3.75" acrylic pipe every 10-15 turns I took a break and taped it before I lost my grip on it (felt like I was wrestling an alligator). With this one I'll probably use a 6" pipe (not ideal, but much easier to wind w/o spaces than square with the sharp bends). I'll probably have to put it in a vice grip and have both hands on the wire and do laps around it since there's no way I'm gonna hold it with 1 hand and wind it with the other (barely did that with the above 10awg). Also looking at ribbon wire that has an equivalent mil cross section or close since I haven't bought the wire yet. Waiting to see what copper prices do, might even use alumimun flashing if I can find a way to reliably insulate it (a short at 100A=explosion). 

Mike
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Original poster: DRIEBEN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi Mike,

I was wondering how do you plan to bend
#2 solid copper wire as it would be VERY
stiff?

David Rieben

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Date: Friday, August 11, 2006 9:20 pm
Subject: Re: slide choke wire size?
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> Original poster: "Mike" <mike.marcum@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> On mine when i get the time to build it I'm gonna use 2awg solid.
> you
> can prob get away with 3-4 awg but I would go below that.
>
> Mike
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> >Original poster: Robert Amaya <dimon20042004@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> >Hi everyone,
> >
> >I am wanting to make a slide choke for my coil but i am not shure
> >what gauge of wire to use. I will be using it to keep the power
> >consumption down to around 100 amps at 120v. Any comments would
> be apreciated.
> >Thanks in advance,
> >
> >Robert A. in Austin
> >
> >
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