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There must be some reason why people braid Litz wire. It obviously wastes window area and increases conductor length and adds cost, so there must be a compensating payoff.

Some of the stuff sold as "Litz wire" is just loosely twisted, not braided.

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You could measure the power by guesstimating the heat capacity and measuring temperature rise. You've got the convection loss to the air.... Maybe a replacement technique. Measure the temperature at full power. Then turn it off and add a heater to the transformer and see how much power you need to get it to the same temperature.

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The stuff we use is just a seven strand twisted bundle. But this is for a 2-3kHz NMR pickup coil.

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Litz wire is sort of nice in a retro kind of way, and the braiding at least makes it easy to handle without its getting the frizzes. My first choice would be tape, as in Joerg's example, followed by Litz wire, followed by insulated multifilar, followed by solid.

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You might try pounding the tube flat and then re-annealing it before winding. That should help a fair amount.

The coupling to nearby objects might be partly the solenoidal field--ordinary toroids essentially have a one-turn solenoid in series with the toroid, due to all the windings going the same direction. Splitting the winding into two counter-wound segments can really help, and of course that reduces the leakage inductance in the process.

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Phil Hobbs

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Not hard to do, I just need the thermometer.

It's tubing for a reason, it's got water through it. Measure inlet temp, measure outlet temp, measure water velocity, done. :-)

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Gack, choke! That'll make things a *lot* worse -- it'll go from water cooled and inefficient, to slightly more efficient, and melting :-o

There are two solenoidal fields-- the primary "around" the toroid, which is only 1 turn at 50A, and the secondary through it, which is 2 turns at

500A. The secondary isn't symmetrically "through" it, so it makes a big solenoid field sort-of-tangent to one side of the core. Here's a picture for reference:
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You can see the turn going through the front, and it goes down to where the cap bank is, then out the front.

Winding copper tubing through stacked toroids is an interesting process.

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Use Litz Tubing.

Hey, seriously, run teflon or some such tubing with Litz or welding wire inside, and run water through it.

John

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I think that's what they must do for those flexible induction cables (e.g., like used on the Mythbusters popcorn show). Must be ridiculously expensive to buy new.

Tim

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Well, you just need some slightly more refractory copper. ;)

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Phil Hobbs

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Refractory copper. There's a cute self-contradiction. :)

Jon

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Just try running a red light in front of a police car. You'll find the coppers very refractory indeed.

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Phil Hobbs

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You mean the tungsten-filled stuff?

...Yes, "refractory copper" actually exists. ;-)

Tim

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Tim Williams

He should quit whining and use platinum.

John

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John Larkin

Too high a resisttivity, how 'bout refrectory silver, costs less, less resistive.

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