Re: houshold wire primary

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

In a message dated 10/4/00 7:14:42 AM Pacific Daylight Time, tesla-at-pupman-dot-com 
writes:

> Original poster: "marzie" <marzie-at-hotpop-dot-com> 
>  
>  hi list
>          im still in the proccess in making my first coil and i was 
wondering 
> if
>  it is possible to use normal household wire for my primary coil
>  i have ~800 turns of 22 awg on the secondary can anyone help?
>   
>  from marzie 

Marzie,

My TT-42 TC which gives 42" sparks from a 12/30 NST uses 
10 awg insulated ground wire, which is similar to house wiring.
My older research coil which gave similar results used 12 awg
insulated stranded wire which is also similar to house wiring.
Both primaries were close wound.

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John Freau