the back of secondary winding

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Original poster: Russell L Thornton <Russell.L.Thornton@xxxxxxxx>


Would someone kindly explain to me the process and purpose of 
varnishing the windings of the secondary?  Specifically, it seems to 
me that when we are varnishing the coil form raw and letting that 
cure and then varnish again after we wind the wire then the back of 
the wire still remains vulnerable with just the enamel insulation of 
the wire.  Of course this assumes close spaced winding.  Or am I just 
not seeing the purpose of this exercise.  If we were doing this for 
insulation purposes I would like to put a layer of varnish on the 
form mounted to the winding mechanism and while still wet wind the 
wire.  What's up here?

Russ,
Monitoring Lightning at the Cape