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

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Original poster: "Brian" <ka1bbg-at-webryders-dot-net> 

Yea, why not. you can always put a ground ring above and outside it if it
hits the primary too many times! cul Brian F.


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


 > 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  :)
 >
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 >
 > Scot D
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