A stepper would be nice, all right. I control my freezer motor with a foot
switch. It's digital, or at least binary.
---Carl
-----Original Message-----
From: krux@xxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, January 06, 2014 8:16 PM
To: Tesla Coil Mailing List
Subject: Re: [TCML] Geek Group HV Lab Fire
You can make a good secondary winder from an old ice cream freezer motor.
It
has more than enough torque to wind a 13" dia form, and probably would do
a
20". You just need a frame and a tailstock to support the other end. I
made
the frame from some old Unistrut.
Good luck to the Geek Group. They rock.
I like working steppers, since they give me an easy way for absolute
control.
All the parts are cut out of 3/4" plywood using the ShopBot at SYN Shop or
3D
printed. My coil is a 4.5", so I'm using a pair of NEMA 17 stepper motors I
had in my parts box for the winder. The motor itself doesn't have quite
enough torque to reliably turn the coil, so I 3D printed a pair of double
helix gears.
If (when) I were to scale it up larger than a 6" coil, I'd switch to a
welded
box steel tubing.
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