Re: Joining two rolls of wire on the secondary coil

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Original poster: "Christopher Boden by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <chrisboden-at-hotmail-dot-com>

No problem at all! Cut that tube in half and leave 2" at the top and bottom 
unwound and you'll be just fine.Nominal aspect ratio for a secondary is 
about 4 or 5 to 1 :)



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>From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
>To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
>Subject: Joining two rolls of wire on the secondary coil
>Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 22:23:40 -0600
>
>Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" 
><JACKBINTHEBOX-at-aol-dot-com>
>
>Hello!
>
>I'm in the process of winding my 4' x 4" secondary coil and I ran out of 
>wire midway.  I have a new roll and I need to connect the new wire to the 
>old.  Will there be any negative consequences to soldering the two wires 
>together?  Every secondary coil I've seen in pictures looks like it's made 
>of one continous wire, so I'm worried perhaps I should have bought a 
>longer roll.  I've spent 3 hours winding already and I don't want to go 
>further if the solder joint will somehow mess things up.  I can't imagine 
>why it would, but this is my first coil and I know squat!
>
>Please help!
>Jack
>

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