"Patrick Turner"
"Phil Allison"

Jim Lesurf wrote:

http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~www_pa/...g/howlong.html

Doing the usual maths on your table of cables

A = 8.5

** Cable "A" would be a woven multi-strand cable like "Tocord" - it
was
sold under other names too.

** I have placed a pic of a " Tocord " speaker lead on ABSE - since I
could not find one on the net.

There are 72 green and 72 copper coloured strands - each enamel coated
so
are all insulated. There is a central clear plastic core ( not visible in
the pic) of about 4mm diameter which the 144 strands are woven around.
The
outer sheath is only 7mm diameter and so the cable is quite flexible.

In order to fit a termination like the banana plugs shown, one must first
burn off the enamel coating with a hot soldering iron and lots of solder.



I doubt I'd ever wanna use that Tocord cable.


** Look out -

here comes a whole pile of "Turneroid" hypothetical, fabricated drivel !!!


If someone crushes the cable under a foot or something, then it'd
be easy to get a short between the different colour enamel wires woven
together.


** Simply not true.

The strands of enamelled wire are very tough and well protected by the outer
sheath and inner, soft plastic core.


And if the enamel wire can be tinned with a hot soldering iron, then its
fragile enamel,


** That is complete ********.


Most SS amps are made to tolerate pure C loads from say 0.002uF to 0.22
uf because


** And some are not - particularly some UK made hi-fi exotica.

But the problem is easy fixed by adding a small coil in series with the
amplifier's output.

20 turns of 1mm enamel wire wound on a pencil will do.



...... Phil