Originally Posted by
rhodesengr
I often get accused of over thinking things.
and I can live with that
Thing is, like i said, I have spent a lot of time trying to understand the performance of wire and cable. Mostly coaxial cable for extremely fast pulses with risetimes measured in billionths of second. So when I see things like slid vs stranded, I HAVE to figure it out. Based on what I found in the wire tables there is no mystery. It is just due to differences in copper cross-sectional area. In a given gauge, solid and stranded don't have exactly the same copper area so they don't have the exact same resistance.
Your reply was exactly what I had hoped for. informed data with some opinion. This is one of those subjects that the science inspires two different types of mind but both should be informed and flexible. This is a good place to be.
Thank you