great new material for biwire bridging....

[Ianm2]

if you only single wire...

strip of solder works great

[Greg.]

That I presume is to your ears......no technical test etc. Have you compared with real wire?

Best wishes,

Greg

[Scottmoose]

I suspect that the solder will have a touch more resistance than 'normal' wire, so it'll probably take the level of the tweeter down a fraction. Whether that's audible or not though I wouldn't like to say.

Cheers
Scott

[petercom]

sorry to come in on this so late but i saw the smiley in the Ianm2's post and thought it was a joke.

Solder is a pretty poor conductor compared to most wires due to the impurities in it. My view is that all joints should be mechanically and electrically sound first before applying solder which then acts as a 'glue' and 'sealer' for the joint without entering much into the conduction equation. This is more difficult to do with components on pcbs, of course, which is why I prefer tag strips.

[Scottmoose]

Why do the impurities make it a bad conductor? Last time I checked, no metallic conductor introduced non-linear distortion to a signal passed through it. I've certainly never measured any distortion from solder. OK, its resistance is a touch higher due to its narrow guage, but so what? Van Den Hul's carbon wires seem to sell well, and carbon is not exactly the best conductor on Earth, and that's putting it mildly. Then again, you're talking to someone who's horn setup is wired with 30AWG magnet wire... ;-)

I can remember a article in HFW using silver solder for I/C's.
and thats BIN, before the idiots on the net.
Will.

[James D]

Scott,

It depends on the way the impurities (usually metallic oxides) and the metallic alloy that is solder interact - quite often these set up either diodic and/or semi-conducting boundaries between the conductor and the impurities. These can and do produce measureable distortion at around the -140 to 160dB level

James

[Scottmoose]

Do you have a source for any of this that you could direct me toward? Always like learning new things.
Best
Scott