[Lowfer] LITZ wire question

[Peter Barick]

Yes, in the ball park, i.e., Bill Bowers' BP. Recall that Bowers published experimental findings of Q factors for a few Litz gauges. I recall 46 strand being tops at 185KHz, that's a heavy weave too. I've seen low spec Litz on eBay at times (crafters like it for hanging pictures!??), but that's likely a lower strand count and in, say, 10-foot lengths.

There was a east-coast LowFER who advertised it on his site (someone?). But I differ with Mike's comment and say try it, Andy,  even as a lark. Use your expertise in LF coils to do another, Litz style and with a 1:1 L/D ratio.

Hey, didn't one of us do a Litzer tree loop and later find the wires separated with tree tugs, moose horns, etc.! Yes, and where is Bill these daz?

Cheers - Peter
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>>> Warren Ziegler <wd2xgj at gmail.com> 09/08/09 3:20 PM >>>
Andy,

   You would want 40 gauge strands
http://www.litz-wire.com/technical.html

73 Warren


On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Andy - KU4XR<ku4xr at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello all:
>
> My knowledge and use of LITZ wire is very limited. To use it for
> coil winding in the lowFER range, what would a good rule of thumb
> strands / guage be for good performance at LF.
>
> Thanks, and 73 :::
> Andy - KU4XR - EM75xr - Friendsville, TN.