Author Topic: Wire gauges and DC resistance (Read 2285 times)

Peterku · « **on:** July 08, 2006, 02:21:41 PM »

Hello,

The Irish Tour neck is 6.5K while the Trilogy Suite is 11.2K. The latter one is wound with a thinner wire as far as I know.

Does a thinner wire have a higher DC resistance for the same amount of turns? Or is the case simply that with a thinner wire you need a lot more turns to fill up the sound?

I ask this because I'd like to know whether a TS and an IT have roughly the same amount of turns so that they're humcanceling when in parallel (and one of them are RWRP).

Peter

MDV · « **Reply #1 on:** July 08, 2006, 03:19:41 PM »

Thinner wire has a higher resistance. Its the cross sectional area that counts: its li a hose: imagine the wire as an 'electricity pipe': like the garden variety, the thinner it is, the more force (voltage) is needed to get current from one end to the other.

As for hum cancelling between different BK singles: who knows? Tim knows, and steve knows.

Someone swith on the Tim signal! (a big spotlight with the sillouhette of a rock dude sporting a les paul. What? you've never seen it?)

Peterku · « **Reply #2 on:** July 10, 2006, 11:15:21 PM »

:lol: :lol: Ahaa, I see. Cheers! :)

Tim · « **Reply #3 on:** July 11, 2006, 03:02:02 PM »

Technically speaking for two coils to 'fully' humcancel they need to have exactly the same number of turns.In practice I've found that you can offset coils by as much as 1000 turns before 50/60 cycle hum becomes a problem.

A Trilogy and Irish Tour have quite an offset between them plus they are totally different wire gauges too so humcancelling won;t be so apparent.