Re: Secondary and MMC Caps

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Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>

HI,

My two cents is to have bunch of little pieces of masking tape stuck all 
around so you can tape off the coil as you make it.  If you slip up, the 
wind will only unravel to the last taped point.  You can also then easily 
tape it off to go stretch or get another beer ;-))

28 inches on 6 inch pipe with #27 wire will take a long time and be fairly 
hard to do by hand.  It certainly can be done, but it will be 
hard.  Stretch it out over a few days.  Or, whip together a winder maybe 
like this one:

http://hot-streamer-dot-com/temp/OLTC08-22-04.jpg

http://hot-streamer-dot-com/temp/OLTC08-22-05.jpg

http://hot-streamer-dot-com/temp/OLTC08-22-06.jpg

http://hot-streamer-dot-com/temp/OLTC08-23-03.jpg

Also, be sure to wind the wire "sort of tight".  You certainly don't want 
to stretch or break it, but you don't want it to be so loose that it slips.


The MMC website hides at:

http://www.thegeekgroup-dot-org/mmc/

Cheers,

         Terry


At 11:17 AM 12/14/2002 -0600, you wrote:
>Hey,
>
>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
>