[600MRG] Litz wire, anyone??

[D.J.J. Ring, Jr.]

Michael Laronda, WA1OMI was investigating multiple parallel opposing wires,
going left to right, then reversing by turning back on itself, he said it
increased efficiency.

Like an "S" but repeating many times.

73

David N1EA

On Mar 1, 2017 9:21 PM, "k2ors" <k2ors at verizon.net> wrote:

> I remember Bill Ashlock tried using Litz for a loop, it was very fragile
> and kept breaking, even when he stuffed it into a garden hose for
> protection.
>
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>
> Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone
> -------- Original message --------From: Dave Riley <
> dave.riley3 at verizon.net> Date: 3/1/17  5:54 PM  (GMT-05:00) To:
> 600mrg at w7ekb.com Subject: [600MRG] Litz wire, anyone??
> My imagination is running in overdrive right now.
> I have a hunk of Litz wire which contains 7 individual twists of 96
> pieces each of .010" diameter copper insulated wire which in this case
> works out to .0314 circular mils times 672 strands, all in parallel...
> This comes out to be the equivalent of a single copper conductor of
> almost 7" diameter...
> Could this be??
>
> Litz wire operating at 472khz calls for individual strands of #43 copper
> insulated..
> This piece at 10 thousandths single strand is more suited for 10 khz. or
> so...
>
> Do I dare a try of 500' of this stuff in a transmit loop??
>
> When should I wake up??   The bandwidth is about 1.6 khz. and said to be
> 98% eff. at this length...
>
> Gonna have to sharpen the slip stick...
>
> This all came about as I was thinking of the inefficient vertical with
> 3db of it's RF going directly to ground...
>
> Lost, DaveR /17
>
>
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