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Why Tinned Copper Wire is better than Bare ones?

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Copper wires that are available in the market today are either bare wires, insulated with nickel or tin or bunched copper wires . The bare wires are rated under the regular bare 12 gauge copper wire. We take a close look at how bare copper wires are different from the tinned ones. Bare copper is a great choice in industries concerned with the manufacturing of electrical equipments and associated appliances and products. Car and domestic appliances are all driven by power connected by copper wires. Great conductivity doubled by extremely good anti-corrosion properties make copper wires made in bare form best option to be used in internal circuits as well as external relays used in transformers and over-head transmission lines. It has a fairly good tensile strength which means that it does not   get snapped in heavy rains or thunderous storms.   The durability is very promising and comes with good workable features. Bare copper wires are easy to draw and flatten and ca...

Wires and their terminology explained

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If you have your house constructed, you must have come across the electric wiring personnel spell out some words such as ‘Wire Gauge’, Ampere, Watts etc. that may have also bewildered you. At that time, you may have nodded your head giving an impression that you understand those power related jargons. However, do you actually know what these are and what these mean in practical life? Wire gauges This is actually a term for the grades of wires and capacity of wires. A Gauge of a wire, in layman’s language is the thickness of the wire or the size of the wire. There are various Gauge of wires available which support different power loads. For example a 6 gauge wire can withstand a load of up to 50 Ampere which means that this wire is appropriate for heavy power usage equipment such as air conditioner, geyser etc. Similarly, a lower gauge wire would support lower load equipment. Thus it is important that proper gauge of cables should be put to proper load. If a lower gauge wiring is su...

Induction Cooking with Copper Coils

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What is Induction Cooking? Induction heating or wherein heat is generated directly in the cooking pot rather than transfer of heat from electric coil or burning flame to the cooking pot is the theory used in case of induction cooking. The vessels used for cooking thus have to be ferromagnetic in property to support the theory of induction cooking. However, any metallic pot can be used, but steel vessels are preferred because of its magnetic properties. The magnetic characteristics of the steel vessel concentrates the induced current in a thin layer near the surface rather than penetrating too far as in case of aluminum vessels, thus making the heating more effective. In addition, in case of aluminum vessels, the induced current also faces certain amount of resistance from the metal. Ferromagnetic pots created especially for the induction cookers are specially designed so that they stick to the magnet. Where Copper is used in Induction Cookers? A coil of copper is placed ju...