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bodge_job | 14:37 Wed 08th Mar 2006 | Science
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i have plans for a stator which calls for enamel coated magnet wire. this is all well and good but would copper wire do the trick?
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Certainly not! The enamel is the insulation. If you wind it with bare coppper wire, you will just end up with one enormous short circuit.
I think that insulated copper wire would do fine you just need to make sure that it is the correct diameter (too thin & it could burn out). I'm not sure what magnet wire is.
Magnet wire is supposed to be pure soft-drawn electrolytic copper which can only be used at moderately high temperatures, often copper-nickel is used for motor windings which have to stand higher working temperatures, for your purpose either would do, enamel coated of course.

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