REFLECTOR: Light Weight Fat Wire

[Jim Agnew]

If you are using a light weight starter in a Velocity you better use #2 if you
don't want to cook your starter when your battery gets older.  Remember it is
about 34 feet round trip.

Jim
--- NMFlyer1 at aol.com wrote:

> Well, this is interesting. I read all the stuff in the link that Keith  
> provided reference "Fat-Wire".  
> Sounded great, even though my setup is a little odd. So, Being the cheap  ass
> 
> that I am, I decided to look for other suppliers of copper clad aluminum  
> wire. 
>  
> While it is much lighter, I found some discrepancies on the resistance per  
> foot as compared to that listed in their site. Notice they compare resistance
>  
> (aka conductivity) to silver, but compare weight to copper.  
>  
> I have to say, most of us would not spend $6.75 a foot for wire that would  
> save us 3 pounds per aircraft.  We may, however, do that to get lower  
> resistance AND a small weight savings. This would come at the expense of a
> FAT  a$$ 
> wire in your duct. 
>  
> Just thought I would share.   Here is one link that shows very  little 
> conductivity difference in AWG-4 copper and AWG-2 CCA.  
> Make your own observation. Note, they say it costs less than copper  !!!!
>  
> _http://www.copperweld.com/pdfs/Bimet_CCAdatasheet.pdf_ 
> (http://www.copperweld.com/pdfs/Bimet_CCAdatasheet.pdf)  
>  
> Kurt ( the pessimistic).  :) 
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James F. Agnew
Jim_Agnew_2 at Yahoo.Com
Tampa, FL
Velocity 173 Elite Aircraft Completed & Flying