Re: secondarys for tube coils

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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 3/20/02 2:48:48 PM Eastern Standard Time, tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
writes:


>
> Most secondary windings for capacitive discharge systems, that I have seen
> displayed here, are wound with #22 or #24 wire on a 3:1 or 4:1 form, but on
> tube coils people are still using "grandpa's designs". That is small tube
> diameter long forms with #28-#32 magnet wire. Which design is correct for
> tube
> coils?-Brad.




Brad,

the correct design is to use a shorter aspect ratio coil.  I have some
schematics at my site at:

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

Cheers,
John