Re: Primary connection

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Original poster: dhmccauley-at-spacecatlighting-dot-com 

An alligator clip works great when in the initial stages of tuning.
However, once you get a good tune point, you can make a more permanent
connection.

Dan


 > I was wondering if I could hear the various ways that everyone has
 > connected their primary coil to the rest of the system.
 > I have an alligator clip in mind when I think of this.
 > Seems like a rather bad idea in a way.  We design this system that can
have
 > in the hundreds of amps for a peak current.  Then we runn this huge
current
 > through a connection that consists of an alligator clip on a copper tube.
 >
 > It seems like bottleneck.  It would hinder the flow of such large
currents.
 >
 > Are there any better alternative simple or not id like to hear bout them.
 >
 > Luke Galyan
 > Bluu-at-cox-dot-net
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