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Re: perpendicular primary



In a message dated 3/21/00 4:54:51 AM Pacific Standard Time, tesla-at-pupman-dot-com 
writes:

> Original Poster: Parpp807-at-aol-dot-com 
>  
>  Hi Dan and all,
>  I have a question--just for a change:
>  Why is the flat spiral SOP for a TC primary? Has anyone experimented with 
a 
>  solenoid
>  of sufficient diameter to avoid the arcover problem?
>  

Hi Ralph,

Many coils have been built with solenoidal primaries, I've tried them
myself, but I didn't see any difference in performance provided that the
coupling was similar.

Cheers,
John Freau