Re: Charging Inductor Construction (fwd) / Induction Coils (fwd)

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Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 10:39:17 -0700
From: Ed Phillips <evp@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Charging Inductor Construction (fwd) / Induction Coils (fwd)

Hello Ed,

thanks for the answer and for giving me the term "scramble wound", 
correcting my very limited english-vocabulary  :-) . "

	"Wild wound" conveys the thought just as well.  Your english vocabulary is infinitely better than my german one and all of you notes are perfectly clear to us so please don't apologize for it!

	One thing that isn't clear to me is how you hold the windings together when you impregnate with paraffin.  If you've explained this I've missed it in reading what you've written.  Are the cardboard former pieces part of the assembly you place in the molten paraffin?  I notice that you take the wise precaution of heating the paraffin in hot water rather than over an open flame.  That is a more complicated procedure than just placing the paraffin container on the heater but far safer!!!

	Another question has to do with the arrangement of your pies.  Apparently all are assembled with the windings in the same direction.  Some very old plans [~ 1910-1920] for making induction coils seem to assemble alternate pies with the windings in opposite directions so that the connections are top to top and bottom to bottom on adjacent pies.  Have you considered this?

Thanks for sharing your work with us,

Ed