"NEW" idea ?? on primary tapping...

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Original poster: "Bunny Killer" <bunikllr-at-bellsouth-dot-net> 

Hey All..

I am designing a new T-coil ( well not new in a true sence )   ok..  I am 
making a new coil..  anyway..  there are the standard things ya gotta do..
toroid:   not much can change there  except for size   still basically a 
dough-nut shaped item
secondary: still pretty much an unchangeable design  tube and wire  ( 
yea  there are conicals, squares, dodecahedrons etc...)
primary still pretty much the same... flat, conical, helical and 
combinations there of......      but hold on now !!!

normally we have this wire exiting from the subtructure that attaches to 
the primary via a clip of some sort and the wire has to be long enuf to 
reach all the way around the case/cabinet/base assembly to reach the "other 
side" of the primary ( and in most cases the wire in either too short or it 
is wayyyy  to long) ...  you always seem to find this out when tuning a new 
coil....


sooo..   for those of us who have a primary that is elevated a couple of 
inches from the deck ,  be it a conical or raised flat....
there is a more "elegant" manner to tap the primary...

my idea is to run a " primary feeder ring"  ( well actually a "C" shaped 
set-up  sort of like a strike ring ...)  at deck level and use a short 
double clipped wire to tap the primary...
one clip attaches to the feeder ring and the second clip attaches to the 
primary proper...  no more 5' of primary flex wire needed to tap to the 
primary...  just a few inches of wire...    maybe about 6" of wire.....    :)

I think this may be a kewl Idea....

gonna try to get it put together by Sunday nite...    hopefully the "extra" 
unused "C" doesnt affect the system...
if I get it together by Sunday I will get pictures    sometimes I have a 
problem conveying ideas via words...   pictures are good things  :)



Scot D