Re: [IRCA] 28 guage magnetic wire

["Bill Harms" <wharms@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bob:

If there were ohmic losses in the #28 wire that I used, I did not 
notice it.  What I did notice was the longer the wire the more narrow 
the beam, and that likely made up for any losses.


Bill Harms
Elkridge, Maryland

On 5 Mar 2006 at 0:59, Bob Foxworth wrote:

> Forgot to mention, you have higher ohmic losses with
> the smaller diameter wire, at some of the higher
> lengths you may wind up losing an appreciable part
> of the weak signal. However I have no first hand
> knowledge of that. There are tables that give the DC loss
> per foot for different wire sizes


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