Ross Herbert wrote:

HiggsFieldwrote:
"Phil Allison" wrote:

: Absolute overkill, and it appears that the construction style would lead
:to HUGE capacitance levels.

Overkill doesn't come into it, although it is a ridiculous cable construction.

It would be interesting to see a manufacturer spec sheet... it would probably
claim that the unique arrangement of 3 bundles of strands in each conductor
being interwoven with the adjacent conductor groups somehow cancelled out the
capacitance.

It would also be interesting to see what would happen if the insulation between
2 adjacent strands from each conductor group broke down. I don't know of any
coating used to insulate copper strands which is 100% guaranteed to remain
intact, especially where constant flexing occurs near the banana plugs. At least
someone thought to insulate one banana plug at each end with heatshrink.

Take a look at triple insulated wire. ( TEW). 3 layers of 'varnish' rated to 3kV or
so IIRC. Can be used in place of standard pri/sec insulation in transformers.

Graham