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Skin effect and aluminum question (fwd)
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Subject: Skin effect and aluminum question (fwd)
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From: Tesla List <tesla@stic.net>
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Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 23:06:04 -0600
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From: Jim Fosse [SMTP:jim.fosse@bjt.net]
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 1998 6:41 PM
To: Tesla List
Subject: Re: Skin effect and aluminum question (fwd)
>From: Jim Fosse [SMTP:jim.fosse@bjt.net]
>Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 1998 1:44 AM
>To: Tesla List
>Subject: Re: Skin effect and aluminum question (fwd)
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>[snipollas]
>Try this: place 2 pieces of Al wire in series with the primary circuit
>of your TC. Just have the 2 pieces of wire laying atop each other. Now
>turn on the power. What happened? Did your TC work well? Did it catch
>fire?
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>My guess - it ran well and may have even spot welded the 2 pieces of
>wire together. I'll try it tomorrow with my new coil.
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I tried it this afternoon. I could tell no differences. The Al wire
did not spot weld. I was running +-10kV DC at ~5 bps.
jim