Skin effect and aluminum question (fwd)

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• Subject: Skin effect and aluminum question (fwd)
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• Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 23:06:04 -0600
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From:  Jim Fosse [SMTP:jim.fosse-at-bjt-dot-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-at-bjt-dot-net]
>Sent:  Wednesday, February 18, 1998 1:44 AM
>To:  Tesla List
>Subject:  Re: Skin effect and aluminum question (fwd)
>
>[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?
>
>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.
>
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

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