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• meekah@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  That’s usually just for flexibility of the cable as far as I understand. Power wires inside the walls are one thick copper wire (or rather three for live, neutral and ground)

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  • ijustliketrains@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Correct, solid copper bus bars are also common in certain applications.

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  • Sodium_nitride@lemmygrad.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Well the “multiple thin wires” technique (litz wire) is more complicated than just having multiple thin wires (you need to braid them in a particular pattern because the magnetic fields that flow through the wires act on each other as well). But it is absolutely used for mitigating the skin effect as well.

    Power lines inside residential homes are an exception because the frequency isn’t high. The skin effect for copper at that point is about 8.41 mm.

    Then consider this wire gague chart

    Even the thickest wires for carrying 300 amps has a radius less than 6 mm (you can also see that the rated frequency is 125 hz).

    If you want to calculate the skin depth, use the formula Image, where f is the frequency, p is the resistivity (copper - 16.78 nano Ohms), u is the permeability (copper - 1.256 micro Henry/meter).

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