Re: [TCML] Secondary Coil: Wire Gauge and Number of Turns

[Atomic <atomicrox@xxxxxxxxx>]

Interesting, never thought about it that way... Those tiny capacitors
actually "leak" the current away because they let AC pass

On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 10:18 AM, Jim Lux <jimlux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 7/3/13 5:25 AM, Atomic wrote:
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>> How can the current be larger on the bottom of the secondary if it's just
>> a
>> continuous wire? Shouldn't the amps flowing on the bottom be the the same
>> amps going to the topload?
>>
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> the current would be uniform if there was no capacitance from the winding
> to ground.  In reality, though, there is essentially a tiny capacitor from
> each turn to ground (as well as to adjacent turns).  You see this in the
> models as "self C" of the secondary (often computed by Medhurst's formula)
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