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Re: Secondary wire.



In a message dated 3/27/00 12:38:17 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
tesla-at-pupman-dot-com writes:

> Original Poster: "Charles Arruda" <carruda-at-channelseek-dot-com> 
>  
>  Has anyone ever tried "litz" magnet wire for their secondary?
>  Sounds like it might increase power-transfer from the primary
>  and reduce loss from corona on the surface.
>  

Charles,

Duane Bylund tried this and didn't see any advantage in a tube coil.
The advantage in a disruptive TC would probably be even less, and
I don't think it would be worth the effort, because the losses in the
secondary tend to be small anyway.

Cheers,
John Freau