[Boatanchors] probably a useless data point

manualman at juno.com manualman at juno.com
Wed Mar 9 02:19:50 EST 2022


Is it wrapped around something?
What's the diameter?
Is it covered wire (teflon, cloth, pvc, etc.)?

Pete, wa2cwa

On Wed, 9 Mar 2022 00:31:03 -0500 Jack Antonio <scr287 at att.net> writes:
> Just picked up a 1000' spool of 22AWG hookup wire,
> for a good price.
> 
> Just for fun, measured the inductance of the spool with
> one of those imported component testers.
> 
> Multiple measurements hovering between 102 and
> 108 mH.  Noise pickup probably causing the variation.
> 
> I would have guessed the inductance value would have been
> higher than that.
> 
> Most likely no one is going to use a full spool of wire as
> a component, but who knows?
> 
> Jack Antonio
> WA7DIA



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