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Re: [TCML] Coil Died

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Subject: Re: [TCML] Coil Died
From: David Thomson <tcbuilder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2013 19:30:39 -0500
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On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 3:41 PM, Andrew Robinson <arobinson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> On 10/9/2013 3:36 PM, Tim Flood wrote:
>
>> The coil that I just silver soldered together the broken brass strip
>> primary will now only produce a weak purple spark from a break-out point.
>> It performed fairly well with the broken primary. Help!
>>
> Bet you any money you put a pin hole through the secondary. Disassemble it
> and look for tracks inside.
>

I agree.  I have burned several secondaries and that sounds like it.  This
sometimes also corresponds to a failed transformer.

Dave
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- [TCML] Coil Died
  - From: Tim Flood
- Re: [TCML] Coil Died
  - From: Andrew Robinson

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