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Re: Latest magnifier results - wire shape

Subject:  Re: Latest magnifier results - wire shape
  Date:   Sat, 14 Jun 1997 17:14:43 -0600
  From:  "DR.RESONANCE" <DR.RESONANCE-at-next-wave-dot-net>
    To:  "Tesla List" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>


To: Bert

You might want to check with Chuck Cook --- he is getting a 16 inch
spark
out of a peanut coil consisting of 1 1/2 in dia x 11 inch long x 30 AWG
in
xmfr oil.  The photos he sent us were amazing for the small size of
coil. 
9 kv drive at 60 ma with a .005 cap I believe.

DR.RESONANCE-at-next-wave-dot-net


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> From: Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> To: tesla-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com
> Subject: RE: Latest magnifier results - wire shape
> Date: Friday,June 13,1997 12:12 AM
> 
> Subject:  RE: Latest magnifier results - wire shape
>   Date:   Thu, 12 Jun 1997 20:24:53 +0000
>   From:   "Bert Pool" <bertpool-at-flash-dot-net>
>     To:   Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> 
> 
> > Date:          Thu, 12 Jun 1997 04:27:46 -0500
> > To:            tesla-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com
> > Subject:       RE: Latest magnifier results - wire shape
> > From:          Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> 
> > Subject:   RE: Latest magnifier results - wire shape
> >   Date:    Wed, 11 Jun 97 05:30:40 UT
> >   From:   "William Noble" <William_B_Noble-at-msn-dot-com>
> >     To:   "Tesla List" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> > 
> > 
> > a thought: if you are trying to get max turns per inch, there is a
> > technique 
> > used for winding power transformers using rectangular wire - perhaps
> > this same 
> > approach could be used for a tesla coil - it would take a special
> > fixture to 
> > feed the wire edgewise onto the coil form and it would take careful
> > anealing 
> > of the copper first, but it ought to work
> > 
> > 
> 
> William,
> 
> Last September, Wild Bill and I experimented with an oil filled 
> magnifier driver, and we did use a secondary coil which is wound with 
> 6 gauge rectangular wire.  The wire is on edge, which gives a maximum 
> TPI.  It was a commercial coil taken from a large transformer that we 
> had scrapped.  The coil worked very well, but we never were able to 
> contain the high voltage, even in an oil bath.  We eventually gave up 
> on this idea and went to a conventional driver, ala Hull.  You very 
> likely could wind a coil using rectangular coil, but it would have to 
> be very soft wire, you'd have to use a special wire guide/jig, and 
> you'd have the best luck with a coil form with a big radius of 
> curvature.
> 
> 
> Bert Pool
> bertpool-at-flash-dot-net