Re: Hot spot

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Original poster: "Allanh by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <allanh-at-starband-dot-net>

I've had the same experience with two of my coils. It seems that the
magnetic field has a highly focused area at this point and causes very high
current in the sec. I've since made my pri. center larger and it seems to
have solved the problem.

allan

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Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2003 6:58 PM
Subject: Re: Hot spot


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 > Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>"
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 > Sounds like a nick in the wire.
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 >  > Hello Coilers,
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 >  > I ran my coil briefly yesterday and had an odd occurance.  After ten or
 >  > so seconds of run time at very reduced power a hot spot developed about
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