In a message dated 8/26/06 10:36:03 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
dorpaul@negia.net writes:
<< Opening this strand revealed white plastic hairs or fibers.
Nothing seemed metal. Although these were tiny, I imagined that they were
the conductor, surrounded by 2 black layers and one white layer of
insulation. Is this correct? >>
This is how many resistor plug wires are made. Resistor wires lower radio (
magnetic ) static emissions.
The terminals are connected by striping the thin outer jacket and 2nd layer
back leaving the center conductor. The center conductor will consist of a
shiny 1/16" diameter tube with the black carbon in the center.
Making it work with a screw terminal is probably possible, strip the
insulation back, fold the center conductor over then stuff it into the dist cap
and
tighten the screw to keep the wire from falling out.
There is a 2nd type of magnetic suppression wire, Magnacore is a brand name
that comes to mind. This uses a center strand of fiberglass wrapped in a fine
steel wire. The spiral wrapping prevents the magnetic field from causing
radio static.
As for the batteries, case size has little to do with power output. A large
case with low plate count and surface area could have the same power output as
a small case with the same surface area.
As a side note, cranking batteries have thin plates to give short bursts of
high amps. A battery that has high cranking amps won't always have a longer
life than a lower amp battery if the high amp battery has extra thin plates.
Deep cycle batteries for a golf cart have thick plates, this gives lower amps
over a long period of time.
A cranking battery used in a deep cycle app will suffer plate damage due to
the thin plates.
A deep cycle battery used in a cranking app won't deliver enough amps to
reliably crank the motor. ( unless the battery is extra large )
Harold
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