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Re: disaster (i think)?



In a message dated 8/29/00 7:18:01 AM Pacific Daylight Time, tesla-at-pupman-dot-com 
writes:

> Original poster: "Metlicka Marc" <mystuffs-at-orwell-dot-net> 
>  
>  all,
>  today i put a coat of insulating varnish on the 3000 turn coil, what i
>  saw sickened me. i thought i was so careful to get the wire tight
>  together but after the varnish at least a hundred? gaps showed up in the
>  windings. not really the width of a wire but there there.
>  there is no crossed wires but i'm not sure if the gaps will kill it or
>  not? it goes about two inches real tight and then a gap, then maybe a
>  half inch, another gap and so on.
>  will covering it in urethane help, or can i expect it to burn?
>  any help will be grateful,  sad marc.

Marc,

My guess is that the gaps won't matter.

John Freau