Re: Odd coil design

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Original poster: "Christopher Boden by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <chrisboden-at-hotmail-dot-com>





We've got 4 spools (about half a ton) of 12AWG Magnet wire in stock for 
in-progress large coils. People wind 12AWG and larger wire for secondaries 
all the time :) It's just a matter of having a form big enough. The Gemini 
coils will be wound with 12AWG (23"dia coilforms). I'ts kinda weird to think 
of it like that (most of our coils are in the 6" range and wound with 22AWG) 
once I realized that most of Geekhouse is wired with 12AWG :) Our large 
coils aren't "Odd" designs, just large, and there are meny people with 
signifigantly larger coils, using signifigantly larger wire.



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>Original poster: "Marry Krutsch by way of Terry Fritz "
>
>Hi again,
>
>I bought a big spool of 12AWG magnet wire, and thought: What if I wound a 
>secondary with this??? I'd only get a few hundred turns on a coil, but the 
>Q should be quite high. Pair this with a big fat primary of 1 or 2 turns 
>(with high coupling), and a -VERY- beefy MMC (or other pulse cap), and 
>things might get interesting :-)))). Terry's paralleled turns might work 
>here to get the coupling up.
>
>I heard of somebody doing something like this with a "single shot" coil, 
>but never with a conventional type coil. I think this guy used a sparkgap 
>pressurized with hydrogen =:-0. The Hindenburg comes to mind ;-)).
>
>Questions, Comments, Flames, Etc. are encouraged.
>
>Thanks, Winston K.