Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site rocksvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!rochester!rocksvax!dave From: dave@rocksvax.UUCP (Dave Sewhuk) Newsgroups: net.audio Subject: Re: Litz wire might make a difference Message-ID: <1746@rocksvax.UUCP> Date: Tue, 13-Mar-84 16:00:54 EST Article-I.D.: rocksvax.1746 Posted: Tue Mar 13 16:00:54 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 15-Mar-84 01:24:21 EST References: <2595@rabbit.UUCP> Organization: Xerox, Rochester, N.Y. Lines: 29 Some of us here looked up your info on skin effect and indeed it appears to be within reason, however look at this from another angle, using the numbers from our trusty Electronics Engineers handbook, we found that that @ 20Khz the depth will be about 20 mils. Doubling this to get the diameter we find that this is about 18 gauge wire. So until you get down to 18 gauge you are not even close to are making any loss. The skin effect is defined as the point where current density at depth mentioned is 1/e (37%) of the current flowing on the surface of the conductor. It is not a digital effect, but describes the exponential decreasing AC current you see as you head toward the center of the conductor. >From the table of "largest permissible wire diameter for skin effect ratio of n" for a frequency of 100 Khz to keep the AC resistance within 1% (ratio 1.01 AC/DC) of the DC resistance we find that 27 gauge is the number. Seeing that we usually want to keep the DC resistance down we use larger gauge wires usually made of smaller gauge strands, you only should worry if the strands of wire are larger than noted above. In a bundle you will find that each strand is really poorly coupled to its neighbor due to oxidation, so that seperately insulating each strand should not be required. -- Dave Arpa: Sewhuk.HENR@PARC-MAXC.ARPA uucp: {allegra, rochester, ritcv, ritvp, amd70, sunybcs}!rocksvax!dave