RE: High Inductance Secondaries and DRSSTCs

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Original poster: "McCauley, Daniel H" <daniel.h.mccauley-at-lmco-dot-com> 

 > > I'm currently designing my secondary coil for my "Psychosis
 >Coil" which will  > be 48" winding length, 25 AWG, on a 12.5"
 >Dia.  > coilform.  About 2700 total turns.  Total Ls of the
 >secondary is about 440mH  > and resonant frequency of the
 >entire secondary / toroid assembly is about  > 30kHz.
 >
 >Sounds good to me.  Thats like my coil, just much larger
 >diameter.  I used 26 awg on an 8" form and 45" tall.

Actually, I changed my mind.  I decided to go with 22 AWG instead.  This
will bring my Ls to about 221mH instead
of 440mH, so i can maintain about 8 turns on the primary instead of 11
or 12.

 > > Anyone else see anything troubling with my secondary???  I
 >can't.  I should  > have probably used a larger gauge wire
 >(maybe 22 AWG), but i just bought  > a 68 LB spool of this 25
 >AWG stuff.
 >
 >I think it should work fine.  For a SGTC it might not be
 >optimal, but secondaries like this seem to work fine on DRSSTCs.
 >
 >Steve

Cool, thanks for the comments.
Dan