Re: Capacitor Help

["Tesla list" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Original poster: m.j.watts@xxxxxxxxxxxx 

On 18 Dec 2005, at 12:41, Tesla list wrote:

> Original poster: "MalcolmTesla" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> I wound my secondary tonight.  As I got started I realized I had no idea how
> to do it LOL.  OK I realized I needed ends on the PVC for mounting so I cut
> a piece of 1x2 trim board to fit and secured it with two little set scews if
> you will.  I then put a bolt through the center for mounting.  See here
<snip>

> I'm curious, how do the rest of
> you wind your secondarys?  Oh and that's 20" of windings on 4" diameter PVC
> with 27 AWG.
>
> Thanks guys
> Malcolm - KC

Smaller ones up to about 5" diameter I do on a lathe. Larger ones
6" - 10"  I've done by hand using machined wooden endcaps with
broomhandle dowel screwed to each end and propped in the
crooks of a couple of chairs with hand rotation. The largest, a 17"
dia skeletal former beast, was wound again with an end extension
clamped in a lathe chuck and the free end extension propped in
something resembling a loose bearing shell mounted on a metal
stand. In all cases the wire was hand-fed.

Malcolm in NZ