Motor windings findings

[Horshu]

Is there only one type of wire that can be used (laminated copper), or is there anything of higher conductivity that is available?

[moebrown20]

Originally posted by Horshu
Is there only one type of wire that can be used (laminated copper), or is there anything of higher conductivity that is available?

There is silver wire, but it is very expensive. There's nothing higher (in conductivity, plus the lowest resistance) than silver.

[Horshu]

Sounds perfect (I'm not too concerned with cost...I've already dropped about $500 in aluminum/carbon fiber perf parts, so I'm moving over to power improvements. I had been thinking about gold wire, but it can't really handle the temperatures.
Is motor wire a special kind of wire such that getting silver motor wire would be difficult, or is it somewhat easy to come by for the right price?

[moebrown20]

Originally posted by Horshu
Sounds perfect (I'm not too concerned with cost...I've already dropped about $500 in aluminum/carbon fiber perf parts, so I'm moving over to power improvements. I had been thinking about gold wire, but it can't really handle the temperatures.
Is motor wire a special kind of wire such that getting silver motor wire would be difficult, or is it somewhat easy to come by for the right price?

A few weeks back, I did a search on silver wire. So far I only 2 site had them...... I may have to go through the yellow pages.
I already have a motor that reach 82-84km. With a silver wire setup, I wonder what the top end will be???

[Horshu]

The problem I'm having is I added 20% or so to my car's weight, and so far, the only power adds I've made are water dipping and neo magnets. The neo helps to beat a stock stage 2, but my speed checker only shows up to 20 km/hr, so I need to add lithium ion, but going this far, I want as much power as can fit on my car, even if I have to use exotic materials. Plus, as much as I've read into motor improvements, I never ran into any changes in material itself, so I figured it's a potential area to improve power

BTW: What sites did you find that had the silver wire?

[Horshu]

Found one site: RCButlers has .50 and .55 for $10, so it's much cheaper than I expected.