Re: Three thousand Five hundred pound coil. (fwd)

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Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 00:04:51 -0700
From: Mark Fergerson <mfergerson1-at-cox-dot-net>
To: Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
Subject: Re: Three thousand Five hundred pound coil.

Tesla list wrote:
> 
> Original poster: "D.Wightman by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <dwightman1-at-cox-dot-net>
> 
> > >
> > > What the devil is the pinkish-purple, diffused cotton candy glow in the
> > > middle of the toroid?
> 
> That is an attempt to paint the pink builders foam siding from pink to
> black, but we ran out of paint.

  The more I look at it, the more I like
it. Sorta looks like corona waiting to
happen. ;>)

> >   And while we're asking silly questions
> > (yes, I'd like to know what the purple
> > stuff is, too), what causes the "uneven"
> > appearance of the secondary? It looks as
> > if the tpi varies drastically along its
> > length, and especially in image c2 we
> > can see what seems to be a repeating
> > pattern to the highlighting that makes
> > me think different wire gauges were used
> > along the length. Is that an artifact of
> > whatever coating (varnish/whatever)
> > process was used? Maybe drying times vs.
> > temperature/humidity changes/phases of
> > Jupiter's moons?
> 
> I went all over town and bought up all the #14 THHN Stranded wire that I
> could find.
> It seems that Homedepot only stocks 3 to 4 rolls at each store. So we went
> all over town to all of the home depot stores and bought it all up.
> Unfortunatly, the wire industry does not seem to have a consistent dye color
> for  wire of this type. As you can see in the pictures it varies in color
> significantly from lot to lot.

  Yeesh! I'd have imagined a given brand
of store would source wire from the same
supplier (obviously I've never shopped
for several hundred feet of wire
retail). Anyway, thanks for explaining.

  Mark L. Fergerson