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Re: Pri/Sec coiling



Tesla List wrote:
> 
> Subscriber: Rodney.Davies-at-anu.edu.au Sun Feb  2 17:39:43 1997
> Date: Sun, 2 Feb 1997 22:16:55 +1100 (EST)
> From: Rodney Graham Davies <Rodney.Davies-at-anu.edu.au>
> To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> Subject: Pri/Sec coiling
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I'm going to ask perhaps a silly and obvious answered question, but when
> winding your primary and secondary, are the windings in the same direction?
> 
> ie, wind both sec and pri in a clock-wise direction?
> 
> I should be able to derive this from 1st principles of electromagnetic
> induction, but can't seem to picture it too well.
> 
> The reason why I ask this is that in TC circuit diagrams, the coils (if I
> am correct) are back-to-back w.r.t the primary and secondary coils. I
> interperate this as being that the coils are wound in opposite directions
> to each other.???
> 
> Then again, this whole idea mightn't really matter...
> Anyway, my puzzling thought for the day...
> 
> Ideas, flames, corrections welcome...
> 
> Thanks guys!
> Catchya later!
> 
> Rod

Rod,

If you're only running with a single primary-secondary system, it
doesn't matter. 

-- Bert --