Re: Old questions, new free time

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Original poster: "Daniel Barrett by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <dbarrett-at-clearcube-dot-com>

    I had bad results with this type of wire. The insulation appears to be
pretty lossy at HF/HV. I was getting about 1/4" sparks until I rewound my
coil with magnet wire- then I got 12-15" with the same drive circuitry.
$.02-
db


> Original poster: "spoonMAN by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<spoonman534-at-yahoo-dot-com>

>   I can get twisted pair thermostat wire (24 ga) in about
> 600 ft rolls.. they only problem is that the wire is
> twisted together.. is it possible to wind a secondary with
> the wires twisted together, or would I be better off to
> untwist them and just use a single wire?
>
> Ben McMillen