Re: primary coil

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Original poster: "Gregory Hunter by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <ghunter31014-at-yahoo-dot-com>

A couple of hours spent constructing a horizontal hand
crank jig now will save you a lifetime of regret
later.  OK, I'm being overly dramatic, but if you ever
turn a thousand feet of magnet wire into a bird's
nest, you'll understand. Get something to use as an
axle and a couple of "C" clamps to mount it to a bench
or saw horse.  I set the wire spool up to pay out with
light tension out as I turned the crank.  Using one
hand to guide the wire and the other hand to crank, I
wound my secondaries with no help.  I wound both the
4" x 24" and the 6" x 30" in under an hour each. You
can see the simple jig on my web site.

Greg
http://hot-streamer-dot-com/greg

--- Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com> wrote:
> Original poster: "neillien22 by way of Terry Fritz
> <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <neillien22-at-hotmail-dot-com>
> 
> Hi All,
> Just subscribed to this list yesturday....this is
> cool....
> I am building a 10 inch diameter 1200 turn secondary
> with 22 gauge heavy
> wire, my coil length will be around 35 inches.....i
> plan to power it with a
> 15kv (not sure of the amperage offhand) gas tube
> transformer i believe from
> a big neon sign here in vegas....i plan to
> experiment witht the spark gap
> and home caps till i get that right....so far
> outlook is good on those....
> But the primary coil....i have calculated i will
> need around 95 feet....but
> i'm curious as to what you all think about Solid or
> tubeing?
> and about the diameter of it....
> any help would be appriciated......
> Also any good ideas on how to wrap a 10 in diameter
> 5 ft long tube???so far
> i'm thinking mount it hotizontaly and put a
> handcrank on it....
> but that seems like it'll take awhile....
> but i guess it'll be worth it with the end result=)
> 
> Thanks,
> Neil
> neillien22-at-hotmail-dot-com
> Las Vegas,Nv
> 
> 
> 


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