RE: Ugly Secondary

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Original poster: "Alan Yang by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <megavolt121-at-mediaone-dot-net>

My First Secondary probably had some bumps and spaces too like yours did.
Unfortunately, mine burned up at one of those bump points. See pictures at:
http://fp2.hughes-dot-net/brianb/images/Tesla/Pictures/092599/092599-2.jpg

-Alan

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Subject: Re: Ugly Secondary


Original poster: "BunnyKiller by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>"
<bigfoo39-at-telocity-dot-com>

Tesla list wrote:

> Original poster: "Jim DeLillo by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <jimdel-at-bellatlantic-dot-net>
>
> I am hand winding my first secondary(is that an oxymoron?).
>
> Besides being ugly, do the bumps from jumped turns affect performance?
>
> I think when I get done I will have a good section that I plan to coat
> and then unwind the ugly part.  Has any body else done this?
>
> << Jim >>

Hi Jim...

jumped turns are not good....  they usually end up arcing out at the point
of crossover. The coil will
run for a little while but in due time the crossover point will become a
problem. If you can , rewind
the portion of the tube which has the crossovers.

Scot D