Re: Joining two rolls of wire on the secondary coil

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Original poster: "Davor by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <davorb-at-telia-dot-com>

Not that I know of. Just do a good soldiering job and file down
the edges with sandpaper. So that it looks like this:

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and not like this:

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Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 6:23 AM
Subject: Joining two rolls of wire on the secondary coil


 > 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
 >
 >
 >