Hi Ken I may be wrong but I think this is a bundled stranded (insulated?) wire, not proper "litz" which is always laid in powers of 3, viz 81, 243, etc this is to ensure that each strand weaves from
Dear Terry, LF Group, Re: is litz wire useful? It depends on the individual antenna. Consider 3 examples: 1) Very large antenna in an open field environment (e.g. G3KEV). The antenna might have capac
I have obtained some Litz wire from Derek at the Crawley radio club. I also borrowed a 800W solder pot but did not have any information regarding working with Litz wire. The sample of Litz wire that
From Nov. 1985 "Technical Topics", a tip from G. Lucas G3TWE: "fill a small container (a [metal] bottle cap is ideal) with methylated spirits (I use rubbing alcohol, N4ICK) and light it. Place the en
Not sure if it is the same sort of Litz wire you mean, but I have a few pieces of cotton (or similar) covered wire recovered from transformers making up an ancient ultrasonic cleaner. With this I jus
The " WireTronic Inc." website, has useful information about litz wire and magnet wire in general. the free " WireTronic Software for Windows(tm) - wtsetup.exe(438K)" is also very useful. 73 Thor tf3
This works so well it is phenomenal. Burning the insulation not new but immersing the hot wire in the spirits is! 73 Cliff Buttschardt K7RR container (a [metal] bottle cap is ideal) with methylated s
Hi Peter, There is a Litz Wire Guide on the site of WireTronic Inc. at http://www.wiretron.com, which describes the notation used and lists standard types. 73, John, G4CNN ___________________________
Hi All G3KEV wrote: 2. A loading coil of the same inductance wound with 4mm litz wire behaves differently. Because of the much higher Q the slightest breeze or some rain and it needs retuning to reso
Mal, and group To what do you attribute the changes in tuning using the higher Q litz wire? I mean when the wind blows Is it movement in the antenna wire itself? Or is it an effect of the air/moistu
Dear Paul, LF Group, I have yet to try a transmitting loop on LF, but from experience with loading coils and various other LF inductors, you can expect that replacing normal wire with Litz of similar
Mal, and group To what do you attribute the changes in tuning using the higher Q litz wire? I mean when the wind blows?. Is it movement in the antenna wire itself? Or is it an effect of the air/moist
Hi All, Ed has pointed out one mistake in my translation: the lines that read: - unwind the braids (in Russian Litz usually 5 - 7 - ) - carefully unwind the strands making up each braid, should have
Dear Bill, LF Group, I have a considerable amount of Litz wire recovered from a scrap Decca loading coil - as has been said, there is more than one type of enamel used. The newer type (usually orange
Hi Bill & Group, I believe why Litz wire has such a low AC resistance is because each strand is insulated and when soldered together you get the parallel resistance of each of the strand of insulated
Mal and LF group, Thanks for all the comments on how to strip the Litz wire. I'm continuing to experiment and last night I placed a sample of the wire in my paint stripper for an overnight test. This
