Coil Winding Wire
A question about magnet wire coils?
I'm trying to make coils of magnet wire in order to use with magnets to generate electricity for a wind turbine. However I don't have enough 26 gage magnet wire. Is it okay if I link together coils of 30 gage magnet wire the 26 gage to create enough coils?
The problem that you may run into using two different sizes of wires is that the induction properties are different. They are different due to the total area available for the magnetic fields to induce voltage into.Take a transformer for example. You use the number of turns of wire on each side to determine the voltage on either side of the transformer. (example: 100 turns on the primary side and 200 turns on the secondary side would double the voltage across the transformer). The calculation assumes that both sides of the transformer use the same guage of wire. If you put 100 turns on each side of a transformer but on one side you used a wire that is twice the size of the other, the transformer would either double or half the voltage across it, depending on which side was primary or secondary.
Now, for practical application, being that 26 and 30 gage wires are very close to each other you may not experience a significant problem. For a small experiment you may just notice a sine wave that has different magnitudes on the (+) and (-) cycles.
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