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- From: arnief@sail.LABS.TEK.COM (Arnie Frisch)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics.fusion
- Subject: Re: Hi resistance wire
- Message-ID: <12886@sail.LABS.TEK.COM>
- Date: 13 Nov 92 17:51:09 GMT
- Article-I.D.: sail.12886
- References: <9211130554.AA07264@anubis.network.com>
- Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR.
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- In article <9211130554.AA07264@anubis.network.com> logajan@anubis.network.com (John Logajan) writes:
- >Since all the other angles have been beat to death on the Notoya demo,
- >I'll focus on the apparent wire resistance, which seems excessively
- ........
- >Dr. Jones first claimed that a section of about 5cm of the wire dropped 0.4v
- >at 0.61A, ergo 0.66 ohms. That's almost 4 ohms per foot.
- .........
- >Tom Droege said he heard 36 gauge wire, but in both copper and silver, such
- >resistance per foot is 0.4 ohms, 1/10 of the Buehler experimental value.
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- If you put .66 amps into a # 36 copper or silver wire, its temperature
- will rise dramatically, and so will its resistance. I would not be
- surprised by an increase of an order of magnitude.
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- Arnold Frisch
- Tektronix Laboratories
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