Re: Secondary wire.

• To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
• Subject: Re: Secondary wire.
• From: Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>
• Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 11:18:47 -0700
• Approved: twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net
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• In-Reply-To: <64.1491f85.2610f431-at-aol-dot-com>

At 12:28 PM 03/27/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>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
>

Computer models suggest that the secondary wire resistance only has a very
small effect on the systems performance.  The spark gap and losses in the
primary circuit are a much greater worry.

Cheers,

	Terry
 

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