Jim: yes you can parallel strands of nichrome, for more current capacity,
BUT, you will lose the resistance of the wire the same as paralleling
resistors, thereby losing the resistance advantage of the wire in making
your suppressors!!!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Strohm" <jstrohm@texas.net>
To: <amps@contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2001 1:51 AM
Subject: [AMPS] Two stupid questions
>
> No, not really stupid questions.
>
> Just two questions I haven't asked before.
>
> #1
>
> Let's say I had a whole bunch of 0.1 uF disk capacitors, all the same size
> and all rated at 5 kV. Is there any reason I couldn't make a 5 kV
> capacitor bank for an HV supply filter by putting them all in parallel?
> Naturally, my PCB would need to be designed for the voltage, and made from
> a material that would withstand said voltage. Naturally, I would have an
> adequate total capacitance for the application, say 20 uF plus.
>
> #2
>
> Let's say I wanted to duplicate Rich's nichrome wire transient
suppressors,
> but I didn't have any large-gauge nichrome wire. But I did have an old
> spool of #26 nichrome. Is there any reason I couldn't twist a large
number
> of strands tightly together to make a conductor of the appropriate size?
> The ends of the finished conductor would be silver-soldered together, but
> not the body of the wire, so it would maintain its conductivity as
nichrome.
>
> Jim N6OTQ
>
>
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