Re: Litz wire

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• Subject: Re: Litz wire
• From: Ed Phillips <evp-at-pacbell-dot-net> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)
• Date: Sun, 05 Dec 1999 18:18:05 -0700
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> 
> Litz wire has the same inductance of solid wire. The increase in
> resistance due to skin effect is also about the same. The difference
> is in losses due to eddy currents induced in the wire by the changing
> magnetic field crossing the coil winding. Essentially the same reason
> why the iron cores of transformers are laminated, and the same reason
> why ferrite cores are composed by many insulated islands of
> ferromagnetic materials, that are conductive. I don't know who
> invented it. Probably someone called "Litz".

	LITZENDRAHT!  Name predates 1914, and "Litz" has been used almost
universally.

Ed

> 
> Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz

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