Re: Shape of secondary coil...

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• Subject: Re: Shape of secondary coil...
• From: "Barton B. Anderson" <mopar-at-uswest-dot-net> (by way of Terry Fritz <terryf-at-verinet-dot-com>)
• Date: Sat, 03 Oct 1998 14:53:50 -0600
• Approved: terryf-at-verinet-dot-com

Chris,
There are two very good reasons to use a circular primary as I see it.
First, you want to minimize any possible arcover between windings of which
a circular primary promotes. Second, soft copper tubing is readily
available and comes in a circular shape, perfect for shaping a nice
primary.

You could probably get away with a polygon primary. It all depends on
contruction techniques and size of the coil. I'm sure there have been many
good working coils using a polygon arrangement.

Bart

Tesla List wrote:

> Original Poster: "chris morgan" <crmorgan-at-hotmail-dot-com>
>
> Must a secondary coil be circular in cross section?  With larger sizes
> it would probably be easier to build a polygon than a circle.  Would
> this dramaticly affect performance?
>
> Chris, via the inter-thingy
>
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