Yeah I have to cut my copper tubing and just bring the gto wire up to it instead. Easier than redrilling and inserting bushing of some sort. The grounding wires ( bottom secondary, nst ground, strike rail) that goto the ground rod I'm planning on using #8 thhn I had or does that have to be gto wire too?
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From: mddeming--- via Tesla <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 11/04/2014 18:36 (GMT-06:00)
To: tesla@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [TCML] Wraping gto wire
Hi John,
While not forbidden, extra turns are strongly discouraged for the following reasons:.
Every loop adds some inductance to the circuit and when you are doing short,
"spectrally dirty" bursts of hundreds of amps, you can get some pretty strange
parasitic oscillations that suck energy from going to the secondary.
Small radius right-angle turns encourage corona formation.
Any feed-thrus in wood should be ceramic, plastic,or rubber. Remember, above ~12KV
wood starts to become unpleasantly conductive.
Matt D.
an ancient ghost of W2CLE
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From: John Cooper <wt5y@xxxxxxxxx>
To: alan <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; tesla <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tue, Nov 4, 2014 7:07 pm
Subject: [TCML] Wraping gto wire
Coiling the wire around the pvc posts a turn or two to help keep it supported is
a nono? Going from one level to another ie filter up to spark gap two turns
around the pipe to keep nice and neat will affect performance?
If so how bout drilling a hole in wood and passing the gto wire through the
wood from one level to the next? Any problrms with that?
Trying for as neat as can make it without messing up performance.
I've already found out the hard way I need a table saw some of my circular saw
cuts leave a lot to be desired lol.
John cooper WT5Y
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