Re: Resonance

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Original poster: "Paul B. Brodie" <pbbrodie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Steven,
No, a little nail polish won't do at all!!! Please give up and rewind your 
secondary. If you attempt to run your coil with a multi-layered secondary 
you are liable to start a fire or worse. You say you need to complete this 
coil to make a grade at school. Do you get a good grade if it doesn't work? 
You certainly aren't the first person to make a mistake on their first 
coil. Try E-Bay for some magnet wire. I recently bought 3 lbs. of 26 AWG 
for $20. Sometimes you can get it for even less than this.
Paul Brodie

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Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 7:24 PM
Subject: Re: Resonance


> Original poster: "Steven Steele" <sbsteele@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> I insulated each layer with a whole lot of nail polish.
> Would that be OK?
>
>        Steven Steele
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> Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 10:48 AM
> Subject: Re: Resonance
>
>
> > Original poster: "Mike" <mike.marcum@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > 99% of the time more than 1 layer is bad unless you go to extreme 
> > measures to insulate it (.125" thick layer of kapton film between 
> > layers/potting in SF6 or oil/etc) which most of the time just much 
> > cheaper to use a bigger coil form with 1 layer. As is I'm willing to bet 
> > that your coil will short itself out and maybe catch fire if the input 
> > power is decent.
> >
> > Mike
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> > Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 11:58 PM
> > Subject: Re: Resonance
> >
> >
> > > Original poster: "Steven Steele" <sbsteele@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > Not yet, I, still waiting on the caps.
> > > Why, is this a bad thing? (8^0)
> > > Now I'm worried.
> > > Should I be?
> > >                                        Steven Steele
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tesla list" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > To: <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 7:58 PM
> > > Subject: Re: Resonance
> > >
> > >
> > > > Original poster: "Paul B. Brodie" <pbbrodie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > >
> > > > Steven,
> > > > Am I understanding you correctly that you have wound more than one 
> > > > layer of wire on your secondary coil?? Have you run this coil successfully yet?
> > > > Paul Brodie
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
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> > > > Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 2:21 PM
> > > > Subject: Re: Resonance
> > > >
> > > > > Original poster: "Steven Steele"
> > > > <<mailto:sbsteele@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>sbsteele@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > >
> > > > > I was going to do that, but it's hard to count because I'm using 
> > > > 36 > > AWG
> > > > > wire. It would be like counting hairs on somebody's head. Plus, the >
> > > > windngs
> > > > > on the outer layer aren't very close becaus by that time I was
> > > > running > out
> > > > > of wire. Also I don't rememer how many layers I had. :(
> > > > > Oh well. Thanks anyway. If I knew how much wire I used I could also
> > > > > calculate it, but I don't. :(
> > > > >
> > > > > Steven Steele
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> > > > > Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 10:09 AM
> > > > > Subject: Re: Resonance
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >>Original poster: "Gerald  Reynolds"
> > > > <<mailto:gerryreynolds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>gerryreynolds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > >>
> > > > >>Hi Steven,
> > > > >>
> > > > >>Asuming your secondary is closed wound, count the turns per inch and
> > > > >>multiply by the winding length.  That'll get you close.
> > > > >>
> > > > >>Gerry R.
> > > > >>
> > > > >>>Original poster: "Steven Steele"
> > > > <<mailto:sbsteele@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>sbsteele@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>>That woul be great...
> > > > >>>Except for the fact that I didn't count the number of windings 
> > > > in >>>the
> > > > >>>secondary and i'm not entirely sure how much wire I used. I know
> > > > that >>>it
> > > > >>>was less than 1,000' because I bought  a 1,000' roll. But I used
> > > > some >>>of
> > > > >>>it to test the winder( I don't know how much) and I ended up
> > > > with >>>extra.
> > > > >>>I don't even know how many times I wound it up and down! :(
> > > > >>>    I'll check it out though. Thanks.
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