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Please forgive my typo. That's 2500 ft/min. This application is called an induction preheater. It is used in the wire manufacturing industry to preheat the 24-26 gauge wire to about 330 deg. F before going into an extruder guider and die to extrud FEP (Floro-ethelene polymers) onto it for...

I have been over and over this and I need some help. I have a copper wire (.0019 inch diameter) running in a wire preheater. I heat the wire at 24 volts AC, 800Hz and pull 192 amps. The wire is approximately 1 meter in length and is moving at 2500 ft/sec. The ambient temp. is 73 deg. F. What...