Re: Carbon Tracking on secondary help.

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Original poster: "Barton B. Anderson by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <tesla123-at-pacbell-dot-net>

Hi Simon, 

Well, rewinding is totally up to you. When I had a short, I simply removed the
area of the short, reconnected via solder, and varnished up the area. I would
try something along these lines prior to rewinding a secondary. Be aware that
the secondary will look kind of shabby following. I think Sundog called it
correctly when he posted about mistuning being important. This was also the
reason my coil shorted a couple years ago. This is probably the biggest cause
of these situations. 

Take care, 
Bart 

Tesla list wrote: 
>
> Original poster: "Simon Yorkston by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>"
> <quantumx-at-ozemail-dot-com.au> 
>
> Hi all. 
>
> Oh no. 
>
> The first time I ever ran my coil, there was an arcing inside the secondary 
> tube. I took the slack of the inner wire up, but I've just realised that 
> there's a darn great big carbon track inside. 
>
> Is there any way of getting rid of this problem WITHOUT rewinding? 
> [Rewinding would require me to buy more wire, more piping, more lacquer, and 
> I'm running out of funds] 
>
> And is  this very likely the cause of all my coil performance problems? 
>
> Thanks, 
> [Panicking] Simon [I don't want to rewind my secondary!]