Thoughts on these...and amorphous wire
Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2005 2:36 pm
Forgive my ignorance. These sound like an interesting idea, say for Cathode resistors. How would they differ from NIWW (non-inductive wirewound) resistors like those power resistors wound on ceramic cores? I presume those are nicrhome wire or something with a lot less conductivity than copper? How big would say a 12w/1k5 resistor be, doing it the Dave way with copper/teflon? If going off the deep end anyway, how about silver wire ones?
On the topic of wire, Dave - being an amorphous kinda guy, have you looked into amorphous wire at all? Apparently it's fairly rare and expensive. The guy from Stealth cables apparently lucked into some somehow (in ex-Soviet Russia perhaps), and is making huge $ on selling it in interconnect cable form (Stealth Indra cables, like $5k/1m pair)... seems like he is cashing in on his luck in a big way, probably since he'll never find that wire again. (talk about a good score). Reading the Stealth site it doesn't offer much insight into where to source it or anything really - obviously he fell into some dumb luck and is capitalizing on it, ... but anyway - just wondered if it's something anyone has played around with at all.
-Ed
On the topic of wire, Dave - being an amorphous kinda guy, have you looked into amorphous wire at all? Apparently it's fairly rare and expensive. The guy from Stealth cables apparently lucked into some somehow (in ex-Soviet Russia perhaps), and is making huge $ on selling it in interconnect cable form (Stealth Indra cables, like $5k/1m pair)... seems like he is cashing in on his luck in a big way, probably since he'll never find that wire again. (talk about a good score). Reading the Stealth site it doesn't offer much insight into where to source it or anything really - obviously he fell into some dumb luck and is capitalizing on it, ... but anyway - just wondered if it's something anyone has played around with at all.
-Ed