Re: Joining two rolls of wire on the secondary coil

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Original poster: "Steve Conner by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <steve-at-scopeboy-dot-com>

I don't know what all the hassle is about. Both my secondaries are a total
mess. They both have turns crossing over in a couple of places and one has a
great big solder joint about 2/3 of the way up where I snapped the wire
while winding. But they both produce sparks 1.5 x their length with no
problems.

I do agree that if you're running huge bang energy and trying to get sparks
close to the self-destruct limit (about twice the length of your secondary)
these little things might be important, but for more modest use I would be
inclined to just push on regardless :)

Steve C.


 > Original poster: "Chris Roberts by way of Terry Fritz
<teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <quezacotl_14000000000000-at-yahoo-dot-com>
 >
 > Hi Jack,
 > Man, I feel your pain. Just 3 days ago I was winding a new secondary to
try
 > to improve effeciency on my coil. (the other one is too short) It 'looked'
 > like I had plenty of wire, but about half way in, I saw that I wasn't
going
 > to make it the rest of the way. =D So, not thinking that I could join a
 > second roll, I simply unwound the entire thing. Oh well, I guess that's
 > what I get for not asking questions. =D