Re: CURSE Primary/ Grounded-centre or grounded edge?

["Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>]

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

Tesla list wrote:
> 
> Original poster: "Loudner, Godfrey by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <gloudner-at-SINTE.EDU>
> 
> Hello Scot
> 
> I use to have access to some kind of big roller press. By successively
> decreasing the distance between the rollers, a penny could be flattened to a
> large disc. If the penny was rolled too thin, cracks would appear. Do you
> think that copper ribbon wire could be rolled in the same fashion from round
> copper wire? Maybe heating the wire before rolling would improve the
> procedure.
> 
> Godfrey Loudner
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tesla list [SMTP:tesla-at-pupman-dot-com]
> > Sent: Monday, June 10, 2002 10:09 PM
> > To:   tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> > Subject:      Re: CURSE Primary/ Grounded-centre or grounded edge?
> >
> >
> > Now     where do I find copper ribbon of sufficient size and length ;)
> > ??
> >
> >
> >
> > Scot D
> >
> >
> >

I have seen rectangular enameled wire used in power transformers, so you
must be able to get it commercially.  I just wonder how big of wire you
can get?  The stuff I saw couldn't have been more than 1/4" wide.  Rob.

-- 
-----------------------------
The Numeric Python EM Project

www.pythonemproject-dot-com