entire secondary

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Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <Kidd6488-at-aol-dot-com>

I've got a few questions about my unbuilt secondary. 

1) My Idea was based on transportability (is that a word?) I want to be able to
take the whole thing apart and move it around. My idea was to have an endcap
bolted to the pri/sec base, letting me just set the secondary in the cap. I
would also be able to add shims to raise or lower the coil.  I see no problems
with this, except for grounding.  I had a few thoughts. 
      a) have the bottom of the coil (the actual bottom) covered with a copper
ring that would make contact with another copper ring in the end cap to make
the connection. 
      b) a metal tab on the outside of the bottom of the sec. that would touch
a metal tab on the cap. 
      c) a wire that I would need to manually connect with a heavy duty
connector 

Same Idea with the toroid. Maybe a threaded rod to raise and lower the toroid. 

2) Is sealing the PVC pipe with PU before winding necessary? I have heard that
you should put some PU on, and while it is wet, wind the coil, so that it acts
like a glue...   
  Comments? 

3) I am using a 12/60, what size form would be best, 4.5" or 6"? The mag wire I
have is #20, so I am leaning towards 6" so I can get the most turns without
exceeding the H/D ratio. (4:1 ???) 

Thank you, 

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Jonathon Reinhart 
hot-streamer-dot-com/jonathon