Re: Aluminum wire in an NST

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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 7/25/01 1:44:47 PM Eastern Daylight Time, tesla-at-pupman-dot-com 
writes:

> Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <Cydesho-at-aol.
> com>
>  
>  I recently dismantled a 9kV 30mA Franceformer that I got my hands on. It 
was 
> 
>  in pretty bad condition, so I decided to just take everything apart to 
just 
>  see what some of the innner workings were like. I was a bit surprised to 
> find 
>  that the primary windings on the transformer were made of enameled 
aluminum 
>  wire. Is this some sort of alternative to using magnetic laminations in a 
>  transformer for current limiting? Would this aluminum wire have any 
> practical 
>  use in Tesla coiling?
>                                              Justin

Justin,

aluminum primary wire is just an el-cheapo substitute for copper
wire, but has nothing to do with current limiting.  I would just toss
it into the garbage.

John Freau