Re: Coil Winder Thingy

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Original poster: "Bill Vanyo by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <vanyo-at-echoes-dot-net>

I built mine with an electronic turn counter that I got on eBay for
under $4.  They're often available there (isn't everything?).  My
winding jig was electric drill powered, variac controlled - crude but
effective.  I did 1000 turns at about 4 turns per second.  The results
were beautiful.  I think even if winding only a single coil, it's
quicker to build a winding jig.

	-  Bill V.

Tesla list wrote:
> 
> Original poster: "Nick Andrews by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <nicothefabulous-at-hotmail-dot-com>
> 
> Hi Greg,
> 
> Nice, simple design.  I wound my 2" secondary by hand, and it took forever!
> Not to mention the sore hands...  It came out almost perfect, but would have
> been much, much easier and taken a mere fraction of the time with a jig like
> this.  It would even be easy to add a turn counter to it.  I can't imagine
> trying to wind a 12" without one!  The ice cream motor seems perfect for
> this application.  I've seen new ones at Wal-Mart for $15 in the summer.
> 
> Nick A
> Denver, CO, USA
> 
> >From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> >To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> >Subject: Coil Winder Thingy
> >Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 11:34:39 -0600
> >
> >Original poster: "Gregory Hunter by way of Terry Fritz
> ><twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <ghunter31014-at-yahoo-dot-com>
> >
> >Dear List,
> >
> >I recently built and tested an electric coil winding
> >jig, and it beats my old hand-crank jig by a mile.
> >It's based on an electric ice cream maker I picked up
> >at a junk sale for $2. I don't have a link for it on
> >my web site yet, but you can get a sneak preview at
> >
> >http://hot-streamer-dot-com/greg/jig.htm
> >
> >Regards,
> >
> >Greg
> >
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