Re: Secondary wire size concerns

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Original poster: "Gregory Hunter by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <ghunter31014-at-yahoo-dot-com>

I think your design sounds good just as it is.  If you
already have the materials you described on-hand,
don't change a thing.

My two cents worth.

Greg
www.angelfire-dot-com/ga3/tesla

--- Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com> wrote:
> Original poster: "Nathan Morris by way of Terry
> Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <themfam-at-home-dot-com>
> 
> Hello list,
> Last night I finished some planning on my first
> coil.  The secondary will be 12
> inches high, 3 inches in diameter and will need to
> be wound with 31 AWG.  That
> is .0089 inches in diameter (not including the
> insulation).  In theory (if
> wound perfectly) this would allow me to get 87.7
> turns per inch for a total of
> 1053 turns (insulation included).  Is this a common
> wire size used on
> secondary?  My transformer is a NST 7.5kv 20ma. 
> Should my secondary be taller
> and my wire size be larger?  If this set up sounds
> ok, how much taller should I
> make my secondary to account for the 'winding slop'
> that will inevitably occur
> on my first wrap job?
> TIA
> --Green Horn
> 
> 
> 


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