Re: first coil

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Original poster: "tmoorezz" <tmoorezz-at-adelphia-dot-net> 

Matt,

     I forgot to mention, if you don't have a secondary coil yet don't wind
it by hand. Wow what a pain that is and the turn our lousy. Build a simple
jig hand powered with a crank is good or if you got a helper use a power
drill, I wound my last coil took only 20 minutes with a drill powered jig
and turned out beautiful, the wire is tight no gaps between windings and I
put about 20 coats of semi gloss polyurethane and it is beautifully. A
little tip for coating ur secondary apply while still on the jig, and leave
the can open so it thickens up, it takes a while for the poly to go bad so
if you take 20 days to coat it like one a day or two a day for 10 days it
will be fine. Also never rout the wire inside the secondary and I mean
never. make an end cap from plexi glass or wood 2 pieces one that will fit
inside and one that sit on the outer edge and glue those together drill and
tap for a 1/2" threaded rod can be screwed in to it then glue another piece
of wood or plexi glass on the bottom of that so the arc wont travel down the
secondary, and do the samefor the top and bottom. This makes it really nice
and easy to fastened down a toroid to the top and the secondary to a base.

Hope this helps even more
Nolan

http://hot-streamer-dot-com/nolan/

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Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 1:25 PM
Subject: first coil


 > Original poster: Matthew Flannery <mflannery-at-Treb-dot-com>
 >
 > Hey y'all
 >
 > I'm about to start building my first coil and I have a few questions...
(bet
 > you never heard that one, huh? *grin*)
 >
 > What kind of wire can I use to wire the main components together?  Can I
use
 > regular 10ga. solid copper wire?  I have two 15kV 30mA transformers for my
 > power supply.
 >
 > I have 22 .22uF capacitors for the capacitor bank that I'm gonna string
 > together in series.  I was wanting to use 10meg 1/2w resistors but I can
 > only find 10meg 1/4w resistors.  Will the 1/4w resistors work to blead off
 > the charge in the capacitor bank if wired in parallel to each capacitor?
 >
 > Once I get these answered I'll be able to start working on putting all the
 > components together.  Any info would be greatly appreciated.  BTW, I'm in
 > metro Atlanta so if there are any local coilers around that would want to
 > hang out at some point, just holler...
 >
 > Matthew
 >
 >