RE: Odd coil design

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Original poster: "Lau, Gary by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <Gary.Lau-at-hp-dot-com>

Bear in mind that if the secondary has a low number of turns and
correspondingly low inductance, system resonance will be at a very high
frequency.  This will increase losses throughout the coil (one generally
strives for the lowest Fres), and a low inductance primary will also
increase gap losses.

Regards, Gary Lau
MA, USA

>Original poster: "Marry Krutsch by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <u236-at-earthlink-dot-net>
>
>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.