Re: Neon tube primary

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Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>

Hi Jason,

This was discussed about a year ago.  I think we concluded that the neon
would have far too much loss.  You might search for "neon and primary" in
the archives for more info.

Cheers,

	Terry

At 11:08 PM 8/16/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>Does anyone know what the effects of using a custom neon tube spiral as a
>primary coil would be? How much resistance is there per foot of gas? I would
>really like to use something like this on a small demo coil, and it doesn't
>matter all that much if the resistance makes the coil less efficeint (well,
>within reasonable limits, I wouldn't tolerate a 50% efficiency loss). I've
>also heard of some flexible neon tubing that is probably just tygon tubing
>filled with neon, but would be alot easier to use than a glass tube,
>actually it would even be easier than Cu tubing. The only problem I see is
>tapping, but you could get over this a number of ways, the easiest would
>probably be to shoot for a slightly large value for the primary and then add
>topload to tune.
>
>Ideas, comments?
>
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