Re: Secondary and MMC Caps

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


For a 15kV 30 or 60mA power supply, you really should be winding your coil
with larger magnet wire.  You should be using at least 24 AWG and
prefereably 22 or 20 AWG.
Otherwise, you'll have a lot of losses in the secondary with very fine wire.

Dan



 > Hey,
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 > I'm about to start winding my secondary with 27 awg magnet wire. I was
 > wondering if you guys had any pointers as this is my first time for this.
 > Also, with either 1 or 2 15kv 30ma transformers will 6" pvc pipe with 28"
 > winding length be sufficient or is this unrelated?
 > Last, I need to buy capacitors for my cap bank but I can't find the geek
 > mmc caps at their website? Where did they go?
 >
 > Thanks
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