Re: Building the Primary Coil

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

In a message dated 10/31/01 9:16:04 AM Eastern Standard Time, tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
writes:



>
> Original poster: "Lau, Gary by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
> <Gary.Lau-at-compaq-dot-com>
>
> Assume your turns are spaced 0.50" center-center, and that you have 4
> supports (six or more is typical, but assume 4 for this exercise).  Also
> assume that the innermost turn is 3" from the center of the circle.
>
> Each support must be 0.50" / 4 = .125" more distant from the center than
> the previous one.  So the first turn of each of the supports are located
> at:
> Support        Radius
> #1        3.00"
> #2        3.125"
> #3        3.25"
> #4        3.375"



Hi
If you make a stack of the supports in the above example and each is staggered
0.125" from the one beneath it, then by drilling through the stack, all the
holes come out in the right places. Just number them before drilling so you
don't mix up the sequence.
Matt D.