I've got thousands of dollars in tools. If I ain't got it I'll make it lol. Yeah next coil I will be throwing out the 3 rpm motor and making something better. I'll have a look at your design. Seems interesting. First thing though is I need to get this coil working efficiently. This is my first big coil. Made some exciters before but never a tesla coil. Don't have a scope though and that's really what I need. Just pretty pricey now days.
> On May 8, 2015, at 10:35 AM, krux <krux@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On 2015-05-08 06:16, Kerry Soileau wrote:
>> Hey guys. I got my parts in yesterday. 5 days early! Spent 6 hours
>> winding a 3"x 22" coil on a microwave turn table motor.....never again
>
> Sounds like you need to build a CNC coil winder
>
> https://krux.org/article/Tesla_Coil_Winder
>
> Took me 75 minutes to wind a 4.5" coil, and that time was spent watching the machine do the hard work.
>
> Of course it took me much longer to design and build the winder, but that was interesting work. Anyway my design files are all open source, so if you have access to some tools, you should be able to build one.
>
> I would say if I were to redesign this I would have put in a much stiffer guide rail for the wire guide carriage to slide across, but otherwise it worked well.
>
> --
> perl -e 's==UBER?=+y[:-o]}(;->\n{q-yp-y+k}?print:??;-p#)'
>
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