RE: Secondary

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Original poster: "Lau, Gary by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <Gary.Lau-at-compaq-dot-com>

A secondary should be wound long enough to not arc end-to-end.  Based on
this alone, the 30" option might be capable of longer arcs.  But
Wintesla tells me that 30" of #22 would have 1090 turns, and 24" of #24
would have 1100 turns.  Is your wire more heavily insulated than normal?
I would go with 30" of #24 for 1375 turns.  My own 6" secondary uses 28"
of #26 for 1734 turns.

Gary Lau
MA, USA

>Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>"
<A123X-at-aol-dot-com>
>
>Would it be better to make a 6" by 30" secondary with 1200 turns of
22gauge 
>wire or a 6" by 24" secondary with 1200 turns of 24gauge. I'm leaning
towards 
>the 24gauge, since the cost for a 10pound spool is the same but I'd
have many 
>more feet left over with the 24gauge. I'm also sick of NST's dying,
whats the 
>best way of going about getting a potential transformer?