Application of Enamelled Aluminium Wire & Enamelled
Copper Wire
Enamelled Aluminium Wire or Enameled
Copper Wire is a wire coated with a thin layer of enamel
(varnish) insulation to prevent the wire surfaces from being
in a short circuit when wound into coils. Magnetic flux is
created when current flows through the coil. Aluminum Enameled
Wire and Copper Enamelled Winding Wire are used mainly in the
construction of motors, electromagnets, transformers and
inductors. For ease of manufacturing inductive components like
transformers and inductors, most of these wires can be
soldered.
Enameled Aluminum Wire or Enamelled
copper wire, also called "Magnet Wire," is widely used in
various Electrical Applications due to its superior
Electrical, Thermal and Mechanical Properties. Enameled
Aluminium Wire /Enameled Copper Wire are insulated by coating
it with enamel of different temperature class. Enamelled
Aluminum Wire /Enamelled Copper Wire are primarily used in
three types of applications - in transformers to transform one
kind of electrical energy into other kinds. Aluminum Enameled
Wire and Copper Enameled Winding Wire are used in motors to
transform electrical energy into mechanical energy. Enamelled
Aluminium Winding Wire /Enamelled Copper Winding Wire are also
used in generators to transform mechanical energy into
electrical energy.
Enameled Aluminum Magnet Wire and
Enamelled Copper Magnet wire are used as the wire in
electromagnets that use electricity to generate a magnetic
field. Enameled Rectangular or Flat Aluminium Wire and
Enameled Rectangular or Flat Copper Wire /Strip is wrapped in
a tight coil. When an electric charge is applied, the wires
generate the magnetic field. Flat Enamelled Aluminium Wire and
Flat Enamelled copper wire have a wide variety of
applications, including use in automobiles, motors,
transformers and industrial machineries. Round Enameled
Aluminium Wire and Round Enameled copper wire are also found
in smaller devices and home appliances, such as computers,
televisions etc.
Like other wire, Aluminium & Copper
Enamel Magnet Wire is classified by diameter (AWG number or
SWG) or area (square mili meters), temperature class, and
insulation class.
Breakdown voltage of Aluminium Enamelled
Winding Wire or Copper Enamelled Winding Wire depends on the
thickness of the covering, which can be of 3 types: Grade 1,
Grade 2 and Grade 3. Higher grades have thicker insulation and
thus higher breakdown voltages.
The temperature class indicates the
temperature of the wire where it has a 20,000 hour service
life. At lower temperatures the service life of the wire is
longer (about a factor 2 for every 10 °C lower temperature).
Common temperature classes are 105° C, 130° C, 155° C, 180° C
and 220° C.
Advantage of Enamelled Aluminium
/Enamelled Copper Round & Flat Winding Wire
Size
One of the
primary properties that make Enamelled Aluminium Wire and
Enamelled copper wire desirable for wide applications is the
thin enameling insulation. Transformers, motors and
generators are all machines based on the coil, which is a
device that generates magnetic fields and electrical
currents using large coils of wire. The smaller these
devices are, the stronger they are. Because Enameled
Aluminum Magnet Wire and Enameled copper Magnet Wire is
insulated by a thin coat of enamel instead other types of
thicker insulation like paper, fibre glass, mica etc. As
Enamel Aluminum Wire or Enamel Copper Wire takes up less
space in coil formation so it makes more effective and
compact coils with higher
efficiency.
Conductivity
Enameled
Aluminium Winding Wire and Enameled copper Winding wire are
widely used in electric devices because of their
conductivity. Aluminium Enameled Wire and Copper Enameled
wire are meant to carry electrical currents. Specially,
Enamel Copper Magnet Wire has less resistance than almost
any other insulated wires. This means that generators using
enamel copper wires will produce more electricity than
generators using most other substances. Coils of Motors made
of Enamel Copper Winding Wire will produce more motion.
Transformers made of Enamel Aluminium Wire or Enamel Copper
Wire will lose less energy.
Resistance to
Corrosion
The third
feature of enameled copper wire / enamelled aluminum wire
that make them so attractive for use in these devices is its
resistance to corrosion. Enamelled Aluminum & Copper
Magnet Wire is the material of choice for use in electrical
circuits, as it lasts for a long
time.
The mechanical, electrical and chemical
characteristics of enamelled aluminum magnet wire differ from
those of copper magnet wire because of the inherent
differences in the conductor materials. These differences are
reflected in certain test procedures and/or performance
requirements for aluminum enameled magnet wire, such as
elongation, adherence and flexibility, heat shock, scrape
resistance, continuity and thermal
endurance.
The advantage of aluminum enameled
winding wire is light weight. This product is widely used in
electrical tools, ballasts, automotive electronics,
refrigerator and air conditioner compressor motors, television
sets, electric stove, microwave ovens, various transformers,
and other kinds of electronic coil motors, electrical
appliances.
Enamelled Aluminium magnet wire is
sometimes used for large transformers and motors, but because
of its lower electrical conductivity, an aluminium enameled
wire must have 1.6 times the cross sectional area as a copper
wire to achieve comparable DC resistance. Smaller diameter
magnet wire usually has a round cross section. Thicker
Aluminum Magnet Wire is often square or rectangular (with
rounded corners) to permit more efficient use of available
winding space.
Modern Enamelled Aluminium Magnet Wire or
Enameled Copper Magnet Wire typically uses one to three layers
of polymer film insulation, often of two different
compositions, to provide a tough, continuous insulating layer.
Magnet wire insulating films use (in order of increasing
temperature range) polyvinyl formal or Formvar (PVF),
polyurethane, polyamide (PUW), polyester (PEW),
polyester-polyimide (EIW), polyamide-polyimide (or
amide-imide) (AI-EIW), and polyimide (AIW). Polyimide
insulated magnet wire is capable of operation at up to 250°C.
The insulation of thicker square or enamelled rectangular
aluminium or copper magnet wire is often augmented by wrapping
it with a high-temperature polyimide or fiberglass tape, and
completed windings are often vacuum impregnated with an
insulating varnish to improve insulation strength and
long-term reliability of the winding.
Other types of insulated conductors
such as fiber glass insulated copper / aluminium round &
flat wires with varnish, nomex insulated copper / aluminium
round & flat wires, kraft paper insulated copper /
aluminium round & flat wires, mica insulated copper /
aluminium round & flat wires, kapton insulated copper /
aluminium round & flat wires, and polyester film insulated
copper / aluminium round & flat wires are also widely used
across the world for various applications like motors,
transformers and reactors.
Various Applications of
Enamelled Aluminium Wire & Copper Enamelled
Wire
Dual Coated Enamelled Aluminium Wires
/Copper Wires are suitable for all "H + " (220°C and
200°C) Class and above applications such as dry type
transformers, stator winding fractional and integral H.P
motors, D.C Field and Armature windings, Motors for Hermetic
grade, Hand tools, Chemicals Industries, Furnaces and high
Torque, continuous rated, all Home appliances machine motors,
Auto electrical, coil application-varnished or unvarnished.
Enameled Aluminum Wire
or Enameled Copper Wire of Hermetic Grade has Excellent suitability
for refrigeration and air conditioning
systems.
Single Coated Wires
are suitable for all "H","F" and "B"
Class application such as dry type transformers, stator
winding fractional H.P. motors, D.C field and Armature
windings. Polyester coated wires have very good chemical
resistance and compatible with all general purpose
impregnating varnishes including high temperature modified
phenolic polyester and others which do not contain the
reactive solvent.
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