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Re: fiberglass secondary (fwd)
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Date: Mon, 04 May 1998 11:47:13 -0500
From: RODERICK MAXWELL <tank-at-magnolia-dot-net>
To: Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
Subject: Re: fiberglass secondary (fwd)
Tesla List wrote:
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> Date: Sun, 3 May 1998 20:26:01 -0700
> From: Jim Lux <jimlux-at-earthlink-dot-net>
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> Subject: Re: fiberglass secondary (fwd)
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> > Subject: Re: fiberglass secondary (fwd)
> > Date: Sunday, May 03, 1998 6:47 PM
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> > Date: Sun, 03 May 1998 19:29:42 -0500
> > From: RODERICK MAXWELL <tank-at-magnolia-dot-net>
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> > Subject: Re: fiberglass secondary (fwd)
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> > Thank you for your reply. I thought that it was made of some type
> > of plastic fibre?
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> Nope. Fiberglass is glass fibers in a polyester or epoxy resin matrix. To a
> point, the less resin and the more glass, the stronger it is. However, all
> the fibers have to be wetted, which is hard to do with a very "dry" layup.
Thank you for the information! Since the power supply that I plan to
use with this coil is going to be large ( pole pig) I suppose it won't
matter to much about the losses that you will have using glass.
Frankensteins Helper
Max