Hi Steve,It may be a problem. You'll of course have to try it to find out. It is best to cap the top and use the top cap for the toroid connection. I personally would not feel comfortable with this connection. It may run ok at first, but at some point something will cause it to breakdown (humidity, tuning, coupling, etc..). I recommend you consider this a temporary solution and begin looking around for a more permanent top cap connection. It's not that difficult to make a top cap. It would be nice if we could find a ready-made cap, but sometimes that's not possible, so we must then fabricate something. It's at that point we start taking these shortcuts which can end up a hasty and poor decision. But top caps can be made from many materials (even wood if necessary).
Take care, Bart Stephen J. Hobley wrote:
I made some changes to the secondary today - creating a connectionterminal for the toroid.http://www.stephenhobley.com/breakout.jpg But does this look like it might be creating an unwanted breakout point? Steve
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