Re: Winding technique

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Original poster: Rob Maas <robm@xxxxxxxxx>

At 1/2/2005 05:11 AM, you wrote:
> Original poster: "claudio masetto" <claudmas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> The clamp is clamping the winding wire and therefore tension can 
> maintained while winding resulting in a nice tight coil. This can be a 
> simple peg arrangement with a couple of pieces of felt or it can be made 
> adjustable so that tension can be adjusted to suit the gauge of wire. It 
> is mounted on an arm which is in turn mounted on a lead screw which guides 
> the wire along the length of the coil.
> Another thing I have noticed is that a lot of coilers who wind their coils 
> place the spool with the winding wire horizontal to the secondary they are 
> winding supported with some sort of bar. This is not necessary. The spool 
> can be sat upright and the wire will just unwind beautifully. No problems 
> with an overunning spool.
>
> Claude.

But each unwound turn from the spool will add a 360 degr. twist
to the wire, which is not good for the isolation.

Rob