Re: [TCML] Primary

["Tim Meehan" <btmeehan@xxxxxxxxx>]

I had trouble winding a primary too - one thing that I did to put mine
together out of heavy gauge wire was to use wax lacing cord to tie the
conductors together.  I used solid insulated conductor (AWG 4 or 5 ... don't
know for sure).  I just made the inner radius of the flat coil and then tied
the conductor to the coil every few inches.  I think that you can get the
wax lacing cord at a few online electronics places.

On Nov 14, 2007 7:51 PM, Clive Hansen <mrclivehansen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello,
>    I am building my first coil and am pretty far along in construction.
> So far I am using a 15kv 30ma nst to drive the coil. I have build a
> bottle cap which I calculated to be around 8nf. I have a static gap and
> am going with a 13 turn primary and a 1100 turn 4 inch diameter
> secondary with 24 gauge wire. My question is this: Can the primary be
> wound with 14 gauge house wire? I had quite a few difficulties winding
> one out of copper tubing.
>
> -Clive
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