Re: What happens if.....

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Original poster: "Barton B. Anderson by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <tesla123-at-pacbell-dot-net>

Hi Dave,

Nothing happens. You eventually coat the secondary and replace the magnet
wire insulation with quite a
bit more insulation than the original. Don't worry too much about that.

Take care,
Bart

Tesla list wrote:

> Original poster: "Dave Scherbarth by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <Hazion-at-hotmail-dot-com>
>
> Well i am building a tesla coil for the first time (YAY) and i have a
question.
> What happens if i accidently strip a little enamel off of the magnet wire
when
> im sanding off the secondary between coats?  I just wanna know whats gonna
> happen when i fire it up for the first time, and yes i have more magnet wire
> and some more pipe for making a new secondary if it comes to that.  The specs
> for the ammount i sanded off is about ~1.5cm off of about 3 windings.