Yes, with copper weld it is copper plated over steel. Once the copper
gets pitted or scored, the elements can get to the steel core, it will
rust, expand under the copper causing the copper to further shed and the
steel will rust and break. If one must uses solid or stranded, hard
drawn is preferred.
73
Bob, K4TAX
K3S, s/n 10163
On 2/10/2016 2:57 PM, [email protected] wrote:
I never had a problem with THHN, but stranded copper weld had a very short
life in Aruba.
John KK9A - P40A
N2TK, Tony tony.kaz at verizon.net
Wed Feb 10 14:00:43 EST 2016
In the Caribbean the sun and salt spray gives short life to most wires. I
bought on eBay several years ago stranded silver-solder tinned copper wire
with a Teflon coating. It doesn't seem to have stretched much and the Teflon
coating is holding up very well. I used #14 on 160M and #12 on 80M. Here in
NY I use #20 for receive antennas.
So, I guess it depends on your climate what works best and what is the best
value.
GL.
N2TK, Tony
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