Re: Optimum coil design?

From: John Popelish (jpopelish_at_rica.net)
Date: 08/25/04 

Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 12:47:44 -0400

Winfield Hill wrote:
>
> Calin Dorohoi wrote...
> >
> > I would like to know how to compute the shortest wire length
> > required to build a specific inductance given a certain wire
> > diameter. My question refers especially to multi-layer
> > air-core coils.
>
> This is a problem that out distant forefathers solved long ago.
>
> The optimum highest inductance to wire-length ratio occurs in the
> Brooks inductor. Its windings are square in cross section and have
> a roughly 3:1 ratio of mean-diameter to length.
(snip)

What about cross sections of some other shape than square? Round,
triangular or elliptical, for example? 

-- 
John Popelish
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