Re: entire secondary

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Original poster: "S & J Young by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <youngs-at-konnections-dot-net>

Johnathon,

If you do 1) a) below, be sure and only use a segment of a full ring.  A
complete ring will act like a shorted turn of a transformer, and probably
will get hot enough to melt your form!  The tab idea is better, and the
loose wire and a (Radio Shack) binding post is also a good method.
--Steve

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Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2001 9:06 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
>