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Re: first coil

To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject: Re: first coil
From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2003 10:11:53 -0600
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Original poster: Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-twfpowerelectronics-dot-com>

Hi,

At 10:05 PM 10/3/2003, you wrote:
>I wound what was pretty much a tesla coil secondary ( Its on my shelf, 
>never used) , by hand, I tried winding it with a drill, but the wire 
>snapped a lot, how do you do it?

If you take a standard AC powered drill and run it with a variac at low 
voltage, it will loose all of it's torque.  It can turn the coil fast 
enough to wind but if something snags, the wire (#24) should be able to 
stop the rotation against the now tiny torque.

http://hot-streamer-dot-com/temp/OLTC08-23-03.jpg

Cheers,

         Terry

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