Re: any insulation recomendations for magnet wire

[Tesla729-at-cs-dot-com (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)]

 All,

I think Malcolm may have stumbled onto a good idea. A total voltage vs. total
secondary length parameter would probably be a better representation of  the
parameters that a coil designer will actually run into. I think it's safe to 
assume
that HV arc distance in air almost never increases linearly arithmetically 
(if 20kv
will arc an inch, 40 kv may arc more than 2 inches, even if every other 
parame-
ter, other than the voltage, is identical). Thus the reason why a 1000 turn 
coil 
with 6 kv turn/turn breakdown voltage could not develop 6 Mv, unless it was 
100
ft. tall! And maybe not even then!

Form my experience, arcs >3x the sec. coil length are quite possible with 
clas-
sic two-coil systems and from what I've read, arc length/ resonator coil 
ratios can considerably exceed this with maggie systems. But these impressive 
results can
only be obtained with a properly designed, built, and tuned system. 

And then, there's the kVs vs. inches ratio for arcs in air, but that is a 
whole 'nother
can of worms.

David