Topband: Stainless Steel for coil taps.

[Roy Morgan]

Larry,

I wonder if there is something more going on there than just the increased resistance of the stainless steel metal compared to copper (or bronze?).

Is your “large 160M base coil” made of quarter inch copper tubing?

Roy

> On Nov 15, 2020, at 6:20 PM, Larry-k1uo <k1uo at tds.net> wrote:
> 
> Probably everyone but me knew or knows this but it seems it is NOT a good idea to use stainless steel band clamps  as coil taps.  Especially on a large 160M Base coil.     Oh well….   The ss band only got red hot and caused the #10 wire coils underneath it to melt into the pvc form and did not start a fire at least.
> Regards  Larry  K1UO
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Roy Morgan
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