Re: HV Wire - electrical tape?

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Original poster: "Jim Lux by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <jimlux-at-earthlink-dot-net>

You could wrap tape, but it's not really very cost effective.  A better
solution is either:
1) Physical layout such that you could actually use bare wire (i.e. physical
clearance is enough to handle the voltage... 1"/10 kV is very conservative)
2) Some form of HV wire: GTO15 for neon signs, if you have to buy it, is
$0.15/ft.. RG-213/RG-8 coax will handle TC primary voltages, and is
available surplus fairly cheap, "solid core" spark plug wire (expensive, but
widely available) is nice.. real flexible, silicone jacket, etc..
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Subject: Re: HV Wire - electrical tape?


 > Original poster: "Jonathon Reinhart by way of Terry Fritz
<teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <tc_jonathon-at-hotmail-dot-com>
 >
 > Hello everyone, I'm back after AOL stopped delivering ALL of my TCML
 > emails... ( I'm Kidd6488-at-aol-dot-com )
 >
 >     On the topic of cheap HV wire, what about wrapping any guage of wire
 > with electrical tape?  Even though it's UL listed for only 600V, aren't
the
 > ratings much higher? I've seen some for 10,000 V I believe...
 >     Put a few layers of that on there and you could have some 30, 40, 50
kV
 > wire, right?
 >
 > Jonathon Reinhart
 > hot-streamer-dot-com/jonathon
 >
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