Re: secondary wire questions

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

Hi Adam,

In general, I think #24 is just right.  #28 is a little thin IMHO.  The color
does not matter at all electrically,  Just a pinch of dye in the coating
process there.

Cheers,

        Terry

At 07:27 PM 10/11/2002 -0400, you wrote: 
>
> I am in the process of thinking of building my newest tesla coil. For my
> secondary form, it will be 5" PVC pipe. But, what size or magnet wire should
> i use? I was thinking 24 or 28, what would be best? i will be running it
> (maby) on 2 15kv 30ma NST's. Does the color of the wire matter(i don't think
> it does, but who knows), i was thinking green, but most i have seen are red.
> I guess red just looks... better. 
> Thanks 
> Adam