Re: Wire worries......do I need HV wire, or will 600V hardware store wire do?

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Original poster: "Harold Weiss" <hweiss-at-new.rr-dot-com> 

Jack,

It is OK, just keep the spacing wide between conductors.  While my current
6" coil uses #14 GTO 15KV wire from the NST, it uses #4 600V welding cable
in the discharge path.  Again, just watch your spacing/layout and you will
do fine.

David E Weiss

 > Original poster: Phlunktfysics101-at-aol-dot-com
 >
 > Hello all!
 >
 > I'm a new coiler, and I'm at the point where I have just about everything
 > here to assemble my coil, except perhaps suitable wire.  I bought some 8
 > AWG copper multistranded wire from the hardware store.  It is thick, and
 > seems heavy duty, but it is only rated at 600V.  Just about all the wire
at
 > the hardware store is 600V max.  I would be using this to make my
 > connections from my 15,000V 30mA NST and 45kV Maxwell Caps.  My question
is
 > will the insulation burn off or something?  Do I need to shell out the big
 > bucks for HV wire?  Or are most people using the same low voltage wire?  I
 > looked on all the popular sites, but wire voltage rating is rarely
 > mentioned.  And when it is, it's always HV wire like 30kV or something and
 > I cant tell if it's just for bragging purposes.
 >
 > Also, I built a "vacuum sucker gap" modeled after the one on Gary Lau's
 > website.  It seemed to be a good easy to make alternative until I can rig
 > up an RSG.  Has anyone else used one of these, and do they work well?
 >
 > I appreciate any advice.
 > Jack
 >
 >
 >