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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