Re: winding secondary

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Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <FutureT-at-aol-dot-com>

In a message dated 7/6/01 3:37:37 PM Eastern Daylight Time, tesla-at-pupman-dot-com 
writes:

> When I finished
>  (there were three junctions) I applied a little flux and then a soldering
>  iron with a small blob of solder on it to the joint and let the solder wick
>  in.  I may have created a shorted turn or two, but I have not had any
>  problems with my secondary.
>  
>  Hans

Hans, all,

If you indeed have some shorted turns in the secondary, this will
probably reduce your output by about 8% or more.  I lost about
8% in spark length when I had one shorted turn.  

John