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Re: primary, secondary spacing
From: DR.RESONANCE[SMTP:DR.RESONANCE-at-next-wave-dot-net]
Sent: Saturday, September 06, 1997 9:58 PM
To: Tesla List
Subject: Re: primary, secondary spacing
To: Kevin
Only way to be sure is to measure your coeff. of coupling. A value of
0.18 to 0.20 works good in small coils.
DR.RESONANCE-at-next-wave-dot-net
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> Subject: Re: primary, secondary spacing
> Date: Saturday,September 06,1997 6:23 PM
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> From: Kevin[SMTP:wawa-at-spectra-dot-net]
> Reply To: wawa-at-spectra-dot-net
> Sent: Saturday, September 06, 1997 1:03 PM
> To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> Subject: primary, secondary spacing
>
> I am going to make a new primary winding. One thing I'm not to clear on
> is the aomunt of space between the secondary and the first turn of the
> primary. My secondary is 4" diam. and I currently have 1" between it
> and the primary. Is this sufficient?
>
> Another thing I noticed is that people say they have their secondaries
> 1.5" above their first primary winding. When I raise my secondary that
> high the coil doesn't function. I think that I am getting the best
> results when the secondary winding is actually below that of the
> primary.
>
> Kevin
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