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Re: [TCML] Secondary Coil: Wire Gauge and Number of Turns



Interesting, never thought about it that way... Those tiny capacitors
actually "leak" the current away because they let AC pass

On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 10:18 AM, Jim Lux <jimlux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 7/3/13 5:25 AM, Atomic wrote:
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>> How can the current be larger on the bottom of the secondary if it's just
>> a
>> continuous wire? Shouldn't the amps flowing on the bottom be the the same
>> amps going to the topload?
>>
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> the current would be uniform if there was no capacitance from the winding
> to ground.  In reality, though, there is essentially a tiny capacitor from
> each turn to ground (as well as to adjacent turns).  You see this in the
> models as "self C" of the secondary (often computed by Medhurst's formula)
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