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Can I use Solid wire for rewiring sailboat if not WHY?
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If you have to ask that question, don't even consider the job. Boats are wired with tinned stranded wire based on some solid engineering. -- Lew S/A: Challenge, The Bullet Proof Boat, (Under Construction in the Southland) Visit: http://home.earthlink.net/~lewhodgett for Pictures |
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Can I use Solid wire for rewiring sailboat if not WHY?
"Boats are wired with tinned stranded wire based on some solid engineering."
Sounds like a Bush press release none answer. This guy has a legitimate question in spirit with the newsgroup. "Lew Hodgett" wrote in message link.net... Subject If you have to ask that question, don't even consider the job. Boats are wired with tinned stranded wire based on some solid engineering. -- Lew S/A: Challenge, The Bullet Proof Boat, (Under Construction in the Southland) Visit: http://home.earthlink.net/~lewhodgett for Pictures |
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Can I use Solid wire for rewiring sailboat if not WHY?
what an absurd response! For the willing: solid wire is intended for Ac because the current travels thru the average of the thicknessas it alternates polarity. Dc travels on the outside (skin effect) due to mutual repulsion of the electrons; therefore stranded wire is best for high current loads of Dc. If the wire is well supported and larger than necessary for the rated current AND cheap enough vs stranded, then go with it. Otherwise, stranded. rick On Thu, 27 May 2004 03:05:29 GMT, Lew Hodgett wrote: Subject If you have to ask that question, don't even consider the job. Boats are wired with tinned stranded wire based on some solid engineering. -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ |
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Can I use Solid wire for rewiring sailboat if not WHY?
bull****. you are an absolute amateur who probably teaches home ec class to
high school sophomores. what an absurd response! For the willing: solid wire is intended for Ac because the current travels thru the average of the thicknessas it alternates polarity. Dc travels on the outside (skin effect) due to mutual repulsion of the electrons; therefore stranded wire is best for high current loads of Dc. If the wire is well supported and larger than necessary for the rated current AND cheap enough vs stranded, then go with it. Otherwise, stranded. rick On Thu, 27 May 2004 03:05:29 GMT, Lew Hodgett wrote: Subject If you have to ask that question, don't even consider the job. Boats are wired with tinned stranded wire based on some solid engineering. -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ |
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Can I use Solid wire for rewiring sailboat if not WHY?
1) Skin effect is of concern - but only at frequencies well above
those used for power transmission. Start thinking about it at perhaps 5 MHz up. Skin effect is actually absent at DC [in response to another well-intentioned post from someone else...] 2) an equal diameter of stranded and solid power line passing equal currents, shows the stranded line getting hotter, with more volt drop, because the resistance per unit length is higher for stranded. Please don't share knowledge with us, willing or not, unless you're sure. There's always someone to spot a misconception. Brian W On Thu, 27 May 2004 22:29:52 -0300, none wrote: what an absurd response! For the willing: solid wire is intended for Ac because the current travels thru the average of the thicknessas it alternates polarity. Dc travels on the outside (skin effect) due to mutual repulsion of the electrons; therefore stranded wire is best for high current loads of Dc. If the wire is well supported and larger than necessary for the rated current AND cheap enough vs stranded, then go with it. Otherwise, stranded. rick On Thu, 27 May 2004 03:05:29 GMT, Lew Hodgett wrote: Subject If you have to ask that question, don't even consider the job. Boats are wired with tinned stranded wire based on some solid engineering. |
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Can I use Solid wire for rewiring sailboat if not WHY?
"none" wrote in message news For the willing: solid wire is intended for Ac because the current travels thru the average of the thicknessas it alternates polarity. Dc travels on the outside (skin effect) due to mutual repulsion of the electrons; You have that backwards. Skin effect is an AC phenomenon. Here, check out this web page from Institute for Telecommunications Sciences: http://www.its.bldrdoc.gov/fs-1037/dir-033/_4923.htm Note that skin effect is only significant at high frequencies. There is no significant skin effect at 60 cycle per second. Rod |
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Can I use Solid wire for rewiring sailboat if not WHY?
none wrote in message ...
what an absurd response! For the willing: solid wire is intended for Ac because the current travels thru the average of the thicknessas it alternates polarity. Dc travels on the outside (skin effect) due to mutual repulsion of the electrons; therefore stranded wire is best for high current loads of Dc. If the wire is well supported and larger than necessary for the rated current AND cheap enough vs stranded, then go with it. Otherwise, stranded. rick Skin effect is something that occurs at higher frequencies. At DC the electron distribution is equal through the CS of the wire. Skin effect can usually be ignored below 50 kHz. Rodney |
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