RE: [Euro Lights][Wiring]

[Michael Leach <scirocco16v_1@yahoo.com>]

Well does any of this really matter when you are powering DC
headlights????.........not really
unless you have your car modified to use 100MHz ac power then skin
effect on wiring would be a problem otherwise just use wire...what kind
will not make that much of a difference

Senior 
Electrical Engineering 
Rochester Institute of Technology


--- Mark Madison <markie@proaxis.com> wrote:
> 
> hehe I love this...
> not to be a total snob.. but I have learned from my
> experience with
> electricians that they know next to nothing about
> electrical theory.
> give them a pair of wire cutters and some tape and
> they can fix
> anything.. but ask them why it works sometimes and
> they say who cares
> it works doesn't it?
> and of course.. it IS theory....  nothing I say or
> he can say about
> electron flow or hole flow can or has been proved
> beyond a doubt.
> 
> okay... I have fairly good credentials here.. not to
> brag but I've
> had TONS of electrical theory crammed down my throat
> and no place
> have I learned that electrical current is more
> likely to flow on
> the surface than it is in the core of the wire. 
> think about what
> it is that is happening... electrons are being
> pushed or pulled
> or forced or for whatever reason transferred from
> one atom molecule to the
> next... of course there is hole flow where the
> actual space that the
> electron can take up will actually be transfered in
> the other
> direction. okay next we look at the surface of the
> copper wire or
> whatever wire you want to look at.. what makes this
> part of the wire
> different than the rest of the wire (the core)?
> NOTHING.
> copper is copper is copper.. or whatever you want to
> make the wire out
> of.... actually if you think about it... the actual
> surface of a wire
> might be LESS likely to transfer electrons....
> impurites from oxidation
> and corrosion.. what little there might be.. would
> cause electron flow
> to be less likely.  Maybe what he was talking about
> is the more surface
> area you can attach a stranded wire to.. that would
> allow more current
> flow from the wire to the surface its mounted to..
> but not through the
> actual wire itself..   stranded wire would flatten
> and touch a surface
> better when smashed in a connector or under a screw
> or something..
> 
> 
> Mark
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Majordomo [mailto:majord@neubayern.net]On
> Behalf Of Andre'
> Bjorkheim
> Sent: Sunday, June 13, 1999 2:24 PM
> To: Scirocco List
> Subject: Re: [Euro Lights][Wiring]
> 
> 
> Mark Madison wrote:
> >
> > Sorry Andre... I gotta agree with Gordon's reason
> a little more than
> yours.
> > although there is more surface area.. there isn't
> any reason why electrons
> > would flow better on the surface of a wire than
> through the core.. or you
> > could argue hole flow... whichever is your
> preferred theory.  solid core
> > wire is a better conductor..but multistranded wire
> flexes better.  I'd
> > use a multistrand for this application because of
> the likelyhood that the
> > wires would be flexed a bit when changing bulbs
> and stuff like that.
> >
>    Regardless of flexibility, I thought that
> stranded wire would always
> provide better current flow, at least my employer
> who is an electrician
> goes by that theory.  I was also taught that in
> school.  Why would the
> Fosgate monster wire be so fine if it werent for
> maximum amperage?  This
> is assuming electron flow on the surface.
> 
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