[TCML] power losses through GTO wire

["jeff mill" <jeffmill2@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello
Got a question
Just got done building a 6" X28" secondary. After the fact I did further reading and found that a 6 X 24 would have been more closer to ideal. If, after testing I am not satisfied with the results would there be a way to "buck" the upper 4" of the coil temporarily without physically removing or cutting in and tapping the windings ? Say a temporary 8" dia by 2" winding on a form wired out of phase at the top ?
Also I am bench testing this, everything on my bench then two 12 foot of gto wire to the primary . I am trying to figure my losses through the 15 ft of gto wire. Would it be a dc loss or a loss at the operating freq 120khz. Another words if it was calculated as a a dc loss then the resistance of the wire would be much greater than the 8 turns on the primary and the loss would be large but if it were calculated as an ac loss the impedance of the primary would be around 16 to 20 ohms and the wire, being less than an ohm the loss would be negligible ?

Really need some help here as I don't know if I should be judging my results this way or wait until everything is mounted in my enclosure and gto wires are much much shorter

Thanks, JM
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