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In Reply to: It is a mechanical thing too not just the material posted by garth on August 1, 2005 at 10:06:00:
What exactly is Cardas wire?IE what gauge, and what is the construction.
I was of the impression that Cardas wire comprised strands of high purity copper wire which are individually silver plated and individually coated with some sort of insulating material.
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"What exactly is Cardas wire?"A wire made by a guy named Cardas.?? :-)
Seriously, it is a real Litz wire made up of six pure copper stands with a thin polyurathane insulation coating. Those total the 33awg which has a resistance of 0.6 ohms/meter. If they were all the same gauge then they would be 41awg each.
BUT ... one of the strands appears to be a smaller diameter and has a slightly different color urathane than the other 5. If the normally used by Cardas "Golden Ratio" were applied here somewhere then perhaps, just perhaps, the one strand could be 42awg and the other 5 40 awg which also yields 33awg, or 33.5. The golden ratio is 0.625 to 1 so it would fit. Who knows.
The outside coating holding the strands together is a very flexible polyurathane coating.
I have a fair amount of Cardas wire I got from Welborne Labs (great pricing) I'm pretty certain it's not silver tinned or coated, just high quality Copper.
Cardas wire has become somewhat of a Standard as it has a great reputation for being as good as it really ever needs to be without the Hype and Snake oil marketing you see with some of the outrageously priced wire.
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