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In Reply to: Re: Wire gauge vs. current saturation and sonics posted by Jon Risch on May 22, 1999 at 08:22:24:
While your definition of "saturation" and mine might be different, it is still results in the same thing.While I'm sure that your technical description is correct in terms of resistance due to thermal losses, here's how i see it: The wire heats due to the fact that it is at, or near, the point that it can't transfer the energy efficiently. Resistance is typically measured at very low current levels. Wire CAN impede higher current levels due to "saturation" / thermal losses, even though it shows a low DC resistance. To me, that is a classic case of saturation. It just won't pass enough signal efficiently to keep up with the demand of the circuit.
While I know that most sections of audio gear are relatively low current levels, my question pertained to power supply sections and speaker wiring. Are they running parraleled runs of the smaller gauge or using heavier wire in those sections ? Sean
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Follow Ups
- Semantics and wording - Sean 10:44:26 05/23/99 (7)
- Re: Semantics and wording - Jon Risch 18:25:03 05/23/99 (4)
- Re: Semantics and wording - Dave B 19:33:26 05/23/99 (3)
- Re: Semantics and wording - Sean 19:59:04 05/23/99 (2)
- Re: Semantics and wording - Jon Risch 10:24:51 05/24/99 (1)
- Re: Semantics and wording - Sean 22:44:16 05/25/99 (0)
- FYI - Dave B 14:47:39 05/23/99 (1)
- Re: FYI - mtrycrafts 16:35:47 05/23/99 (0)
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