[Amps] Is solid Cu 600VAC house wire, good for tank toroids?

Bill Turner dezrat1242 at ispwest.com
Thu Jan 5 01:53:46 EST 2006


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At 09:49 PM 1/4/2006, KD7QAE wrote:
>While testing some cores in the shop tonight I happened to grab a hunk
>of 10AWG solid Cu insulated house wire and threw 10 turns on a T400
>core.  It sure was pretty, all red and grey with big white turns.  The
>insulation looks like it would handle much more than 600V with a heavy
>plastic (PVC?) and a thinner clear (nylon?) secondary insulation.  My
>questions are this: Has anyone hipotted this kind of wire and has anyone
>RF tested this insulation?  The conventional wisdom has you double tape
>the core with silicone or fiberglass tape and wind with a TFE sleeved
>wire.  Perhaps the use of house wire would simplify this step(?).


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How much power are you planning to run?

73, Bill W6WRT



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