Re: Objections to Steel Wire?

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Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <ajones18-at-bellsouth-dot-net>

In <4.1.20020930205942.00a2e460-at-pop.dnvr.qwest-dot-net>, on 09/30/02 
   at 08:59 PM, "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com> said:

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

>There are different views on steel wire.  In general, copper, etc,
>are cheap enough that using them saves argument.

>	
>Intellectual curiosity makes me wonder what the actual impact to
>performance would be, if tried...
>(I'm not about to, and not proposing that anyone else do so...)

>	best
>	dwp


I used some 1/2" steel banding once on a bi-polar coil with tacks to
attach it to the wooden dowels primary support. It worked fine back
then with the tiny neon transformer and terrible capacitors I had.
Then changed the primary to a copper tubing spiral, pancake-style on
edge, and output was the same. About 3" between terminals. The banding
primary caused tiny sparks on the secondary and the whole
primary-secondary unit had a blue glow around it. Looked fantastic.

Alan
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