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Re: entire secondary



Original poster: "pjj by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <jjenkins-at-satx.rr-dot-com>

i seen somewhere (someone help me out) a collapasable coil that some
colledge students built


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Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2001 8:06 PM
Subject: entire secondary


> Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<Kidd6488-at-aol-dot-com>
>
> I've got a few questions about my unbuilt secondary.
>
> 1) My Idea was based on transportability (is that a word?) I want to be
able to
> take the whole thing apart and move it around. My idea was to have an
endcap
> bolted to the pri/sec base, letting me just set the secondary in the cap.
I
> would also be able to add shims to raise or lower the coil.  I see no
problems
> with this, except for grounding.  I had a few thoughts.
>       a) have the bottom of the coil (the actual bottom) covered with a
copper
> ring that would make contact with another copper ring in the end cap to
make
> the connection.
>       b) a metal tab on the outside of the bottom of the sec. that would
touch
> a metal tab on the cap.
>       c) a wire that I would need to manually connect with a heavy duty
> connector
>
> Same Idea with the toroid. Maybe a threaded rod to raise and lower the
toroid.
>
> 2) Is sealing the PVC pipe with PU before winding necessary? I have heard
that
> you should put some PU on, and while it is wet, wind the coil, so that it
acts
> like a glue...
>   Comments?
>
> 3) I am using a 12/60, what size form would be best, 4.5" or 6"? The mag
wire I
> have is #20, so I am leaning towards 6" so I can get the most turns
without
> exceeding the H/D ratio. (4:1 ???)
>
> Thank you,
>
> ---------------------------------------
> Jonathon Reinhart
> hot-streamer-dot-com/jonathon
>
>