RE: AC grill primary

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Original poster: "Daniel Kline" <daniel_kline-at-med.unc.edu> 



 > -----Original Message-----
 > From: Tesla list [mailto:tesla-at-pupman-dot-com]
 > Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2003 3:03 PM
 > To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
 > Subject: RE: AC grill primary
 >
 >
 > Original poster: "K Wilson" <teslamap-at-hotmail-dot-com>
 >
 >
 > >While walking around the side of my dads house yesterday my eye
 > caught the
 > >perfect spiral of the metal fan grill on top of the air
 > conditioning unit.
 >
 > Copper plating would probably be difficult, but probably the only way to
 > make it workable. My hands were sore for 2 days after winding my last
 > primary with 17 turns of 6 AWG SOLID copper. Thankfully I didnt
 > have to pay
 > for the $50 worth of copper.

You know, the primary doesn't *have* to be, ummm, circular...;)
Octagonal might be nice.
Dan K.