Litz wire - multi-strand wire, consisting of many thin wire strands, individually insulated and twisted or woven together, following one of several carefully prescribed patterns. Litz wire reducing the skin effect and proximity effect losses.
Litz Wire dialog allows to specify Litz Wire for a winding.
By default, the dialog shows automatically selected Litz Wire from the Litz Wire Database. User can change the selection.
Litz Wire Database default option can be changed to User Type option:
User Defined Litz Wire section is available for input:
To to specify Custom Litz Wire the following values can be set:
Single strand, AWG - single strand wire size.
Strands - number of strands in litz wire.
Overall dia, mm - overall litz wire diameter. It’s calculated automatically after user changes Single strand wire size and number of strands. Could be overwritten by user.
CMA, Cmils/A - current capacity of the winding.
Insulation type - type of litz wire insulation (Served, Unserved, Triple).
Insulation material - litz wire insulation material.
Part number - manufacturer’s part number
Manufacturer - litz wire manufacturer.