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In Reply to: RE: There is a very good chance most aftermarket power cords- posted by Tweaker456 on September 12, 2016 at 13:58:00
The Pangea cord mentioned is a Litz construction, not on big solid wire.
Not all current carrying conductors in the Pangea power cord are Litz. You do know Litz wires are solid core wires individually insulated wires, several grouped together, paralleled, to form a larger gauge wire.
As for one big solid core wire for the hot and neutral current carrying conductors I am not sure that is what the OP is asking for.
Here is another manufacture of power cords that uses solid core wire for their power cords. WyWires also uses Litz wire in the construction of their power cords.
The point is the cord's hot and neutral current carrying conductors are not made of stranded wire.
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Jea, I did get the impression that that's what the OP was asking for, one solid conductor but only he knows for sure. Litz wires are solid insulated wires "twisted or woven" in a certain pattern, not just parallel. Like I said before I agree with Duster that stranded sounds better that solid from my experience. Never have heard litz and don't know why it would be used for AC other than someone is trying to sell something different and that it may sound better than solid or stranded. Just like everything else people say and like different things. T456
I didn't get the impression the OP was looking for a cable that could be used for a power cord that uses large solid core conductors. Maybe if the OP is still following his thread he will chime in and let us know for sure. I did read responses to the OP where other assumed he meant single large solid core wires.//
I have an older Audioquest power cord that has several individual #18 or possibly 16 gauge solid core copper wires individually insulated that are paralleled together to make an equivalent 12 gauge single conductor. One for the neutral, the other for the hot. The equipment grounding conductor is a #12 stranded wire.
Just a guess AQ still makes their cables somewhat that way.
From AQ's Website:
Audioquest
NRG-2No matter how perfect an AC power source, distortion is added within any AC cable, especially within a stranded cable. Even the most sophisticated filters and power supplies cannot eliminate this cable-induced distortion.
SOLID LONG-GRAIN COPPER (LGC) CONDUCTORS: Solid conductors eliminate strand-interaction distortion.
http://www.audioquest.com/power-cables/nrg-2
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PS audio also uses solid core wires in the design of their cables.
See Link below.//
As for using Litz wire the end result is still the same. Why it's used? Probably cheaper and the cable might be more flexible. If you look at the construction of a power cord that uses Litz wire you will notice the paralleled Litz wires groups for the current carrying Hot and neutral conductors are individually enclosed/covered by separate insulated jackets. There could be several individual hot and neutral groups. It all depends on the geometry of the cable design.
Edits: 09/12/16
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