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Wire to RF toroidal coils?

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I need to wind up a few toroidal coils on T130 and T50. F=over 10MHz, AC current up to 3A.
Number of turns 4 to 10.
For T130 with 7 turn is lenght of wire 300mm.

I looked at the wires available and calculated the resistance including the skin effect

1x 1,20mm 75,6mOhm
1x 0,70mm 132.6mOhm 4|| 31,2mOhm
1x 0,35mm 272.2mOhm 8|| 34,0mOhm

Yes, it would have HF cable for exmaple 37x0,14 R=18,4mOhm, but I don't and I don't want to give $ 11 for 150g, when I have many kg 0.7mm.
I would like to use 4x0,7mm.
The question is how to wind it up?
Like 4 wires next to each other?
Or as twist, how many turn per meter?
What do you recommend?
 

To factor in only skin effect will underestimate the AC resistance, there's also proximity effect. Respectively, parallel connection of 4 wires will hardly achieve quarter resistance. Study the stranding scheme of litz wire to understand what's optimal. For low number of strands, twisting is O.K.
 

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