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Old 2nd April, 2007, 12:24 PM
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Originally Posted by Toro
what about turning the cables into electromagnets by coiling them up?

pretty though
The small number of turns, low amounts of both voltage and current, and the fact that they are air-core coils means that the field generated is pretty weak. The only issue that would be created would be due to self-inductance, and only then at pretty high frequenies (multi-megahertz).
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