RE: Progress ? small toroid gets hot

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Original poster: "Hall, Dale by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <Dale.Hall-at-trw-dot-com>

Try gapping small toroid, if it still gets hot its not a shorted turn affect!

or sub a similar dia dryer duct as shield w/insulator between ends.
 the small gap should matter not for field control. (incr or ins gap for no
arc)
 I've done this w/my 5J system (low rep rate = no heat build up mechanism)
 to study top Sec shorted turn affect.

Dale

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Subject: Re: Progress ?

Original poster: "Steven Ward by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<srward16-at-hotmail-dot-com>

>The small toroid gets hot! "I kid you not"; I
>have never noticed if the little guy got hot before. So, does anyone else 
>have
>probs in this nature? I think I need the little toroid to control breakout 
>from
>the secondary's top windings.

YES!

My small coil has this same thing!!  I just wrote about it before reading 
this.  Its inder MMC warming.  Only the center peice of my gets blistering 
hot.  Im not sure how it happened, but i have noticed it before with other 
coils but not nearly of this magnitude.  This would probably make an 
interesting discussion, since TCs arent supposed to have high current at the 
top of them.  Also, can you verify that youre connection was not arcing??  
Im almost positive that mine wasnt.

Steve Ward.