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RE: Solid Secondary?



Any parasitic effects due to the presence of a solid coil form would
be modeled as resistive losses, not inductive or capacitive (which are
not actually lossy).  But as a practical matter, such losses would be
neglegable.  Wind away!

Gary Lau
Waltham, MA USA

>Original Poster: "Bob Wroblewski" <bwroblewski-at-yahoo-dot-com> 
>
> There are some scrap clear acrylic rods of 1.5 to 2
>inches diameter at work in the machine shop that are
>calling me to wind them!
>  I know acrylic (thermoplastic) isn't the best
>material because of combustability but I'm talking a
>low power, tabletop demo coil.   
 > Are there any downsides to winding a small TC
>secondary with a solid form? If only in interest of
>science;) Surely someone has done this already.
>  What effect would it have on the inductance and
>stray capacitance of the secondary? My guess would be
>none and some respectively. Comments?
>
>Regards,
>Bob Wroblewski (N1INU)
>Dracut, MA