RE: Jacketed Coil

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Original poster: "David Thomson by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <dave-at-volantis-dot-org>

Hi Nick,

I had thought of that.  But when faced with the choice of a $5 piece of
opaque plastic pipe or an $82 piece of clear plastic pipe, ...well, the
choice was clear.  I went for the opaque plastic pipe.  :-0

Dave

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Subject: Re: Jacketed Coil


Original poster: "Nick Andrews by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<nicothefabulous-at-hotmail-dot-com>

It might look really cool with certain wire colors if the outer jacket is
clear so you can see what is going on.

Nick A


>From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
>To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
>Subject: Jacketed Coil
>Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 17:38:37 -0600
>
>Original poster: "David Thomson by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
><dave-at-volantis-dot-org>
>
>Has anybody here built a jacketed coil before?  I'm just finishing a 3.5"
>diameter, 48.125" tall solenoid coil wound with 21 gage wire at about 97%.
>The windings were coated with five layers of polyurethane and allowed to
>cure.  Today the outer jacket was assembled and filled with oil.  The outer
>jacket is a 4.5" OD PVC pipe sealed at the top and bottom.  The oil is
>transformer oil I purchased from a dealer on eBay last year.  I'm hoping
>the
>coil will be completely free of corona discharge.  Any other experiences
>with this type of coil would be of interest to me.
>
>I plan to fire it up with the 25.25" flat spiral secondary on Thursday
>after
>all the glues, epoxies and polymers have a chance to cure.
>
>Dave T.
>
>