Re: [TCML] Inductor Construction

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For the flower tie wire you need to go to any store that sells mainly flowers and the like. I know here in my town the people were very nice and gave me an huge carton of them for like 10 bucks. All flower tie wire is , is a thin steel wire covered in a thin coating to prevent rusting. 
There is some on this web site. you want the straight ones. not cloth covered. I think the stuff i got was #24 
http://www.afloral.com/Floral-Supplies/Tools-Floral-Wire-Grapevine-Wreaths 

Jay Howson 


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tyler Pauly" <rpggod714@xxxxxxxxx> 
To: "Tesla Coil Mailing List" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx> 
Sent: Monday, June 1, 2009 7:43:55 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern 
Subject: Re: [TCML] Inductor Construction 


Thanks guys for all the info! 

Two quick follow-up questions: 

Is the volt/turn ratio something to follow strictly? Would it be better to under or overshoot the ratio if I had to? Just curious where it comes from. 


And I can't seem to find the flower tie wire you speak of, Jim. Do you have a link? I'll try to think of some ways to insulate welding rods in the mean time. 


Tyler 





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Hi Tyler, 

I don't quite understand your wire question. If you are asking if can you 
splice the segments together - sure - just open the cable and remove the #8 
segments, solder, and heat shrink the connections. 

I remember a suggestion that you may want to consider: Not insulating the 
rods creates eddie currents and subsequent losses and heat. Now you may be 
able to pour some vanish in the tube (coat the inside of the tube with 
grease or something to keep the varnish from sticking). I think a better 
idea suggested was to use flower tie wires which is painted green and comes 
in precut lengths! Mild steel is good. 

Do a search on flower tie wire and you should get lots of hits. 

Jim Mora 


-----Original Message----- 
From: tesla-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:tesla-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf 
Of Tyler Pauly 
Sent: Sunday, May 31, 2009 5:27 PM 
To: tesla@xxxxxxxxxx 
Subject: [TCML] Inductor Construction 


I apologize for my rustiness with classical physics, but here's the problem: 

I'm building an inductive ballast for a pole pig; the plan is for 200-300 
turns of 8 gauge around a PVC pipe, with some welding rods taped together 
into a long bar sliding in and out of the PVC form. 

My question arises because I found a supplier of some cable that has 6 
strands of 8 gauge insulated copper wire inside. Would I be able to somehow 
splice the input to connect to all 6, then use say 50' of the cable to get 
300 turns effective? 

Is this feasible or not? 

Thanks, 
Tyler 




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