Re: Just a FEW questions from a newbie

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• Subject: Re: Just a FEW questions from a newbie
• From: Esondrmn-at-aol-dot-com
• Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 22:22:26 -0500 (EST)
• Subscriber: Esondrmn-at-aol-dot-com Mon Jan 13 22:10:23 1997

In a message dated 97-01-11 14:29:50 EST, you write:

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<< 
 I have heard lots of differnt stuff on this... everything from use 26awg
 -at-
 18inches... to useing 22awg -at- 12"....  Am I just going to waste wire
 by having it too long?  Or bring the 1/4wave frequency down too much?
 
 Pete,

You want between 900 and 1000 turns of wire.  On a small coil of this size,
28 guage wire is large enough.  You want the inductance as high as possible
without introducing too much resistance - for higher Q and better
performance.  You really need to balance all of the components of the system
so you know that it will all work together as designed - before starting to
build.  Download my spreadsheet (Teslaexl.zip) from the ftp site and play
with several parameters of secondary coil size and toroid to see what happens
to the primary and capacitor size needed.
  >>
 I called them for a catalog.  I assume that these caps will work?
 about what am I looking at for a target cap value for this curcuit?
 5mf, .5mf, .05mf, etc..?
  >>
You will probably need something around .005 mfd for this size coil.

Ed Sonderman

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