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

To: Bill Turner <dezrat1242@ispwest.com>
Subject: Re: [Amps] Is solid Cu 600VAC house wire, good for tank toroids?
From: KD7QAE <KD7QAE@ARRL.NET>
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 06:58:12 +0000
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Full Legal Limit...

Bill Turner wrote:

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>At 09:49 PM 1/4/2006, KD7QAE wrote:
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>>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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>73, Bill W6WRT
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