Stainless steel wire

[dankie]

hey , what is the advantage in having stainless steel wire? im thinking of odering 2 spools of wire for making my bifilar chokes.

what would be the difference between 100 feet of copper wound bifilar and 100 feet of wound

http://www.a-msystems.com/electronics/wire/stainlesssteelsingletef.aspx

i cant find any info on stailess steel wound cores, i cant find nothing about stainless steel used in inductors. Some 1 plz post info

[vdubdipr]

i know that stainless steel has a high resistance, making your total impeadance higher...ohlms

[Shanti]

I think you're relating to the Stainless Steel wires of Stanley Meyer?

Well yes, stainless steel has a higher resistance, but as Stanley stated himself, this is not the main reason why taking stainless steel wires. He took 430FR stainless steel, an that is in my opinion very important. Why? Because 430FR is magnetic steel. The stainless steel wire in your link is 316, which is non magnetic!!

So why is it important to use magnetic steel wire? Well, if you make a bifilar coil, where the two windings cancel the magnetic field of each other, then a steel core will not have much of an influence, and will not be able to amplify the inductance like in a normal coil. But if the wire itself is a "magnetic steel core", the magnetic field strength can still be much enhanced although the coil is wound bifilar.

[vdubdipr]

this should settle you up    http://info.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Workshop/advice/coils/

[raburgeson]

Stanley used stainless wire because it doesn't react to Hydrogen, Oxygen, or water. I made a Joe Cell and am experimenting with it. Let me tell you alligator clips don't come in stainless, at least I haven't found any outsource for them in my area. The clips I can buy corrode quickly and adversely effect the water in the cell. To make a stainless connection I drilled a hole in the top side of the outer cylinder and got stainless wire and wire wrapped it. That solved my problem. Corrosion had to be dealt with in the Meyers' devices also so, stainless to stainless connections were very necessary.