• WANTED: Happy members who like to discuss audio and other topics related to our interest. Desire to learn and share knowledge of science required. There are many reviews of audio hardware and expert members to help answer your questions. Click here to have your audio equipment measured for free!

Speaker wires don't carry any energy (power).

Ingenieur

Addicted to Fun and Learning
Joined
Apr 23, 2021
Messages
938
Likes
747
Location
PA
Wow you really don't know field theory. A perfect conductor has no E field inside, and as the resistance goes up the field in the conductor rises but it stays small and near the surface. Try checking your "facts", the truth is easy to find.


Stop spreading your nonsense.
That is the pot calling the kettle black

1 not a perfect conductor
2 not a static charge
3 the net field is in the direction of power flow. Some in the conductor, the balance typically within 10% of the radius.
4 the field does not vanish, the net vector sum of internal and external E is external pointing towards the load, angle, depending on the conductor, V, I.
But the internal field remains or Ohms law does not apply, it doesn't vanish due to a mathematical operation. When you swing an object on a string and it is moving horizontally that doesn't mean gravity is 0 and the only force is that imparted by your arm.

Irrelevant reference.
Please stop spreading bad science like in the video.
 
Last edited:

Ingenieur

Addicted to Fun and Learning
Joined
Apr 23, 2021
Messages
938
Likes
747
Location
PA
This might clear things up for some.
This is the ONLY reference to Poynting in 3 grad level texts on power systems.
System analysis
Computer modeling & Control
Transients

May be VIEWED AS, not treated as.
But without the conductor, no large scale power transmission..or small scale.
Only signal level.
The fields mean squat, it is potential and current delivered to the load.
The current is conveyed by the wire. B is a result, not cause.


To show how silly depicting 12 VDC fields as extending yards read it.
A 115 kV line with 8' spacing contains all energy within 5" of the conductor.
Usually less.

FB07C753-0EC8-4228-BA55-3427A591A743.jpeg464C96B7-5B4C-430C-8F1E-C83F03A5D34F.jpeg
 

xaviescacs

Major Contributor
Forum Donor
Joined
Mar 23, 2021
Messages
1,501
Likes
1,981
Location
La Garriga, Barcelona
What does that have do with this scenario?
The OP stated this just before posting this source:
A perfect conductor has no E field inside, and as the resistance goes up the field in the conductor rises but it stays small and near the surface. Try checking your "facts", the truth is easy to find.
So I thought his reference would explain this explicitly.
E vanishes internally here, as I said many posts ago.
I won't check, but I believe you did. :D:)
 

Ingenieur

Addicted to Fun and Learning
Joined
Apr 23, 2021
Messages
938
Likes
747
Location
PA
Conclusions:
No wires needed
Power transmission is lossless
Velocity of propagation > 1c?
 
OP
C

Cbdb2

Major Contributor
Joined
Sep 8, 2019
Messages
1,557
Likes
1,537
Location
Vancouver
Last edited:

Ingenieur

Addicted to Fun and Learning
Joined
Apr 23, 2021
Messages
938
Likes
747
Location
PA
No wires needed.


And how did they fake the measurements in the video? And all the simulations are wrong and your the ONLY one who's right..
Then why all the wires in your home?
And feeding your home?
And to the transformer feeding your home?
And in the generator feeding all the xfmrs between it and your home?
And the windings in generators and xfmrs?
And the ones is offices going to fluorescent tubes?


Maybe you know something they don't.
btw, a radio or cell phone has no wires.

If you don't understand what is going on with the fluorescent bulb I can't explain it.
Any more than why the 'non-wires' are elevated so cows and farmers hopping off tractors don't get shocked.

The textbooks are 'right'.
I refer to them, not Google wackos
 
Last edited:

Ingenieur

Addicted to Fun and Learning
Joined
Apr 23, 2021
Messages
938
Likes
747
Location
PA
Assume a 345 kV line
200 kV to ground plane
We know 95% of the energy is contained within 5% of phase spacing. Assume 30' spacing (typically 26-28 iirc).
5% ~ 1.5'

V at this point ~ (0.95)^2 x 200 kV = 180 kV
E = (200 - 180)/1.5 = 13,300 V/ft
A null point since initial point of reference.

At 3 ft 180 / (3/1.5)^2 = 45 kV
E = (180 - 45) / 1.5 = 90,000 V/ft

At 6 ft 45 / (6/3)^2 = 11.25 kV
E = (45 - 11..25)/3 = 11,250 V/ft

At 12 ft 11,250 / (12/6)^2 = 2.8 kV
E = (11.25 - 2.8) / 6 = 1,400 V/ft

At 24 ft 2800 / (24/12)^2 = 700 V
E = (2800 - 700)/12 = 175 V/ft

At 48 ft 700/(24/12)^2 = 175 V
E = (700-175)/24 = 22 V/ft

WAG, perhaps this is why the phases are ~60' AFG at the V level? ;)

At 60 ft 175/(60/48)^2 = 112 V
E = (175 - 112)/12 = 5 V/ft

My initial assumption of 5% is high, it usually works out to 0 V at grade/ground level.
112/200,000 = 0.05%, pretty close


Is a current induced in the bulb?
Does it have a filament from + to -?
Why must it be pointed at the line?
Since B is pretty much constrained?
Or does the E field ionize or charge or excite the gas?
Does current flow thru the person?
 
Last edited:

Pattern

Member
Joined
Dec 6, 2021
Messages
38
Likes
53
Cut the wire half way what happens? The only current that flows is capacitive and inductive. It's not a propagated field in the wire, it's a propogated field from the wires close to each other and the rapidly changing field. I suspect current pulse initially (small) drooping as C/L it propagates then finally turning on one the field fully propogated.

Electrons don't carry the power but they do induce the magnetic field.

It's really easy to test though. 50 or a 100 feet of wire would be more than enough. No need for long wire.
They did this exact test in the follow up video
 

Capitol C

Active Member
Joined
May 21, 2021
Messages
164
Likes
191
Location
Washington, DC
Top Bottom