RE: any insulation recomendations for magnet wire

["John H. Couture" <couturejh-at-worldnet.att-dot-net> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)]

David -

"if the system is designed properly". What are the proper design
requirements for using the single vesus the double insulation? The JHCTES
Ver 2.3 program gives a "volts per turn" parameter for making this decision.
What are your ideas?

John Couture

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Subject: Re: any insulation recomendations for magnet wire


Original poster: Tesla729-at-cs-dot-com

Hi John, all,

 I've had pretty good success with both single and double-insulated
magnet wire for sec. coils in my experience. I did use double coated
#16 wire for my largest coil system (Medusa). IMHO, a lot of thick in-
sulation is not absolutely neccessary if the the system is designed
properly. Richard Hull and Ed Wingate have shown this with their large
systems. To be on the safe side, I would go ahead and go with the dou-
ble Formvar wire if I was planning on building a large system ( > 8 ft.
sparks)

Hope this helps and good luck with your project.

Keep 'um Sparkin',
David