Re: Secondary Questions

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Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <FutureT-at-aol-dot-com>

In a message dated 7/10/01 10:15:30 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
tesla-at-pupman-dot-com writes:

> >1) What size of wire should I use?
>  
>  John Freau has found excellent results with 26AWG with about 1600 turns.
>  It isn't a critical value, but does have some critical ramifications,
>  particularly the size of the primary inductor.  Do an archives search at 
>  pupman-dot-com for a wealth of info.  I wouldn't use anything thicker than
>  22AWG, and nothing thinner than 26AWG (unless you really want to wind 2000
>  turns of 28AWG wire ;-)

Mark, all,

I used about 1600 turns of #28 on one 23" tall coil, and about 1350 turns
of #28 on my TT-42 TC.   STill another coil used 1700 turns of #28 on
a 24" tall form.

My TT-42 TC is at :

   http://hometown.aol-dot-com/futuret/page3.html

John Freau