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I am interested in ordering some served litz wire from Surplus Sales recommended by Thonston. It was stated that the litz wire has "12 strands, 36 AWG". Does it mean each strand is 36 AWG? if so what is the combine AWG for the 12 strands? I needed about 20AWG and 30AWG to make speaker wires and interconnects.Thanks for reading and helping out a newbie.
Sh
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fwiw, to double the area of the copper you must travel 3 guage sizes...so 12 strands of #36. is 6 strands of #33 3 strands of # 30 1.5 strands of # 27 and .75 strands of #24, so you end up right about #25.
a more accurate way is to look at the wire charts, and see what the circ mils of copper is for #36 and multiply that by 12 and see the nearest corresponding guage.
dave
I have heard that Toulene is a good solvent for dissolving varnish. Just submerge the areas of the wire you want the varnished removed. I would think about 1/2" if you inserting it into solderless spade connectors. After the toulene I would immerse it in Lemon juice and then in tomato juice and see if you set a nice shinny copper look then crimp the end strands tightly and tin with solder. A pencil eraser is a good cleaner to scrape the varnish off with. The solvent alone is not gona hack it. Its gona take elbow grease. Cordially James
Only use it in a very well-ventilated area. It is toxic and (I think) also carcinogenic.
Hi:I bought some of this on Thorsten's advice. My warning to you is that you may want to pick up a cheap solder pot at MCM Electronics (SKU 21-3510 - use number for searching)if you want to use this wire. Getting the enamel melted and the solder sticking on this is tough. I bought a Kester Flux pen and the above mentioned solder pot and will try that out as soon as my next set of parts get here.
I think there is a formula for converting AWG on the TNT-Audio site. rwiley's estimate seems about right from seat of the pants glances at the stuff.
You will probably want the served stuff to keep the wiring together.
-MA
Hi Michael,Thanks for your advise. Pardon my ignorance but what is a soldering pot? I was advised that using a soldering iron of about 30w would do the trick of melting away to coating on the wire.
sh
A solder pot is a little electrically heated bath of molten solder - it's literally a pot full of solder. You dip the wire end in to tin it. I have a 40w iron and it does melt the enamel, but it takes a lot of time and is hard to get the solder to stick. Take a look at the MCM Electronics site I posted - they have a picture of it.
I'm sure this means that each individual insulated strand is 36awg. 12 strands @ 36 awg yields a conductor of approximately 25 awg. To get to 20 awg., you would need to parallel three of the 25 awg conductors.Hopes this helps.
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