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RE: Maxing stock chokes and DHT filament transformers

"Think of the "draw" current as a one-foot diameter snake going down thru a 10 foot wide hallway. No problem! No?

Then, the snake swallows a nice, juicy 40 foot diameter morsel. That is our pulse-- as in amplifiers and music.

Now, if that hallway was made 50 feet wide instead of 10 feet, NO problem, the snake, meal and all, can still negotiate it!"

Yes, but if the "hallway" (drlowmu's choke output leads) is followed by a very long corridor (the rest of the wire in the choke), then it doesn't matter whether the fattened-up snake can get through the 50 ft hallway or not, if the rest of the corridor it needs to go down is still only 10 ft wide.

The analogy, in any case, is not a very close one, and is not worth pursuing. But the underlying question remains: Why should it make any significant difference at all to replace four inches of the hundred feet of 22 AWG wire in the choke by 12 gauge silver wire? The other 99 feet 8 inches are still the same old 22 AWG wire that is claimed by drlowmu to be too thin.

Chris


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