That comes from the fact that when buying copper, strap gives you more
surface area and lower inductance than round wire for a given amount of
copper cost. And for those that would advocate copper pipe, strap has both
sides usable as wire and pipe only have one usable side.
73
Gary K4FMX
>
> I'd just like to know the origin of this whole "thin copper ribbon"
> grounding thing. It doesn't stand up very well to analysis, so I'm
> thinking that it was borrowed from somewhere else, driven by other
> considerations, and happened to work, so became "common knowledge".
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