Re: Secondary Wire Type

To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject: Re: Secondary Wire Type
From: Hollmike-at-aol-dot-com (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 16:06:56 -0600
Approved: twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net
Delivered-To: fixup-tesla-at-pupman-dot-com-at-fixme

In a message dated 5/11/99 3:27:38 AM Mountain Daylight Time, 
tesla-at-pupman-dot-com writes:

> 
>  I'm planning on building a 4.25" x 18" secondary using AWG24. It will be
>  powered by a 15kv, 30 ma NST, which may get parelleled in the future. I
>  found some wire with the following specs: "An enamel coating gives this 
wire
>  good moisture and heat resistance, so it can be used in hermetic motors.
>  Wire meets NEMA 1000 MW-73 and MW-35, and is rated at 7,500 VAC. 
Temperature
>  rating 200° C." Is this OK?

  Sounds good to me.  You won't ever get to 200ºC unless you run overcoupled 
for a extendend length of time and you won't likey exceed 1000V per turn.
Mike