RE: Winding primary

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Original poster: "Luke" <Bluu-at-cox-dot-net> 

On the note of not needing a big honkin primary coil.....
I was starting on building my MMC the other day and it hit me that we
talk about all this high power and current in the tank circuit and use a
heavy gauge for the primary when in reality as far as wire size goes the
weak link seems to be the leads coming from the caps in the MMC.  They
are so small compared to what is suggested for the primary.


Luke Galyan
Bluu-at-cox-dot-net
http://members.cox-dot-net/bluu

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Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 5:56 PM
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Subject: Re: Winding primary

Original poster: "Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz" <acmq-at-compuland-dot-com.br>

Tesla list wrote:
  >
  > Original poster: Gregory Hunter <ghunter31014-at-yahoo-dot-com>

  >... Finally, if
  > the first primary looks like a nightmare, discard the
  > Cu tube and try again. You're only out $12 or
  > so--chicken feed in this cash-intensive hobby!

And note that unless your coil is a really big thing, there is no
technical reason to use tubing for the coil. Any reasonably thick
wire is more than enough. All my primaries were made with #18
solid wire (Ok, a 5 kV x30 mA NST doesn't give a lot of power).
http://www.coe.ufrj.br/~acmq/tesla/tefpprim.jpg
Not a work of art, but cheap and works.

Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz