Re: Secondary wire AWG

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Original poster: Jim Lux <jimlux-at-earthlink-dot-net> 

At 11:59 AM 1/16/2004 -0700, you wrote:
>Original poster: Mddeming-at-aol-dot-com
>In a message dated 1/16/04 11:32:19 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
>tesla-at-pupman-dot-com writes:
>Original poster: "Luke" <Bluu-at-cox-dot-net>
>
>I know that the total number of turns is taken into consideration when
>choosing the awg for the wire used on a secondary.
>I have also seen that the currents can be high at the base of the
>secondary.  That makes me think a larger wire size should be used to help
>handle the currents.
>
>Any input on what would be too small or too big for a wire size on a 
>secondary?
>
>L

Empirically, that size which results in somewhere between 600-1500 turns on 
the secondary is an appropriate size.  Get one of the tesla coil design 
programs or spreadsheets and run some trial cases.