RE: Winding primary

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Original poster: Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-twfpowerelectronics-dot-com>

Hi Luke,

The key is those leads are very short and normally in parallel.  The loss 
from the skinny leads is trivial.  They do make those caps with big strap 
leads, but the cost is stunning for the special order...

Cheers,

         Terry

At 07:48 PM 3/9/2004, you wrote:
>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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>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