Re: help !! loose wire on secondary

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Original poster: "Ed Phillips by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <evp-at-pacbell-dot-net>

Tesla list wrote:
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> Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
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> I had a similar experience with my secondary.  It had been completed for some
> time, but it got knocked over one day when it was removed from my coil. Some
> of the wire came loose, and I got those bumps on its surface. As of yet, I
> have had no problems with corona or arcing at the points where the wire
> sticks up, mostly it just makes my secondary look ugly. The best thing to do
> is just to leave it as it is. I tried to carefully unwind part of my
> secondary and then rewind it, since one of the bumps was pretty close to the
> end. Now it looks even worse than it did before. I just recoated the whole
> thing to keep the wire from shifting around and it seems to work fine.
>                                     Justin

	I'd be a lot more worried that the high spot came from crossover of a
couple of turns than I would about the bump.

Ed