One point in Justacoder's article that i was not aware of is that the "experts" agree that it is the dialectric and not the conductor that is broken in. The dielectric of choice?---Teflon. I have always liked teflon capacitors and also wire but for other reasons (or so I thought.)
Marakenetz's diode argument comes from Ben Duncan, no? I could never really but that one. He argues this is the reason not to use stranded cable. Copper-oxide forms between the strands and encourages non-linear conduction (little mV diodes.)
It just gets curiouser and more curiouser all the time.
I remain,
Marakenetz's diode argument comes from Ben Duncan, no? I could never really but that one. He argues this is the reason not to use stranded cable. Copper-oxide forms between the strands and encourages non-linear conduction (little mV diodes.)
It just gets curiouser and more curiouser all the time.
I remain,