Secondary wire.

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• Subject: Secondary wire.
• From: "Charles Arruda" <carruda-at-channelseek-dot-com> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)
• Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 17:08:39 -0700
• Approved: twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net
• Delivered-To: fixup-tesla-at-pupman-dot-com-at-fixme

Has anyone ever tried "litz" magnet wire for their secondary?
Sounds like it might increase power-transfer from the primary
and reduce loss from corona on the surface.

Online source of the wire -
Url:  http://www.mwswire-dot-com/litzmain.htm

Description:
The multistrand configuration minimizes the power losses
otherwise encountered in a solid conductor due to the "skin
effect", or the tendency of radio frequency current to be
concentrated at the surface of the conductor.   In order to
counteract this effect, it is necessary to increase the amount
of surface area without appreciably increasing the size of the
conductor. It is also essential to position each individual
strand in the litz construction in a uniform pattern moving
from the center to the outside and back in a given length.
Even properly constructed litz wires will exhibit some skin
effect due to the limitations of stranding. Wires intended for
higher frequency ranges require more strands of a finer gauge
size than litz wires of equal cross sectional area but
composed of fewer and larger strands.



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