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Re: bunch of questions



Subject: 
           Re: bunch of questions
      Date: 
           Tue, 25 Mar 1997 14:27:46 -0800
      From: 
           Calle Laakkonen <laakkone-at-icenet.fi>
        To: 
           Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
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> Your coil is too long for its diameter.  You should not go over about
> 5:1 generally; you are nearly at 10:1.  Also #28 is pretty thin.  Most
> folks use something closer to #22.
> 
> However, all is not lost!  I started with a coil very similar to yours.
> The solution for me was to take a hand saw, and very carefully cut the
> coil in half so that I wound up with about 18 inches of windings.  It
> was painful, but it was the right thing to do.  Also, you can then use
> the left-over top half of your coil as a pair of choke coils to protect
> your transformer.  I took the discarded top half, stripped a few inches
> of wire off the middle, and had two "free" choke coils - one for each
> side of my neon.  I even drilled and bolted a protective spark gap to
> the choke coil form for an integrated protection system.  Cut that puppy
> down!

Hmm. So I should cut in to half for best results ?
Is there any other way than cutting it ?
like bigger primary ?

        -Calle