Proctologically Violated©® wrote:
If it *is* silver, it is a marvelous idea, because sposedly the bulk of the
current density in a conducting wire lies on the surface of the wire.
If it's tin plated, the question is then *why*!
Nickel??

Skin effect (current flowing on the surface of a conductor) only
begins to become measurable at Megahertz frequencies. At 60 hz
it would be essentially ZERO.
...lew...