Most 'western' manufacturers brand their products, its part of advertising. The Chinese seem very slow to accept the idea of developing brand loyalty (strangely, an exception is climbing equipment, carabiners, harnesses, rope).
I understand that strength-to-weight (about two times better in the alloys used, corrected for the slightly thicker cables) is also major factor. It's hard to hang copper; stronger towers closer together.
Fair point. It's easy to just look at how many stars something has on Amazon, and not engage critical thinking skills about whether it's too good to be true.
Weight for weight, aluminium is a better conductor than copper - you can make thicker cables for the same weight.
No-one is being touchy - but someone mentioned aluminium as if it was cheap and nasty - for electrical transmission its everyday - and not commonly known as part of The Grid
Your trivia is wrong! IUPAC adopted Aluminium in 1990, but in 1993 acknowledged that the American Chemical Society was widely using Aluminum and so said you can use either. Most official IUPAC publications use Aluminium as their house style. In reality nobody in the rest of the world cares.
Well, I listened.... and tried again with Amazon, but more expensive.
) and just live wi' them?
