Re: Pri/Sec coiling

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• Subject: Re: Pri/Sec coiling
• From: Thomas McGahee <tom_mcgahee-at-sigmais-dot-com>
• Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1997 08:06:49 -0500
• Subscriber: tom_mcgahee-at-sigmais-dot-com Fri Feb 7 00:05:31 1997

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> From: Tesla List <tesla-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com>
> To: Tesla-list-subscribers-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com
> Subject: Re: Pri/Sec coiling
> Date: Wednesday, February 05, 1997 12:26 AM
> 
> Subscriber: MALCOLM-at-directorate.wnp.ac.nz Tue Feb  4 22:17:57 1997
> Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1997 09:09:05 +1200
> From: Malcolm Watts <MALCOLM-at-directorate.wnp.ac.nz>
> To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> Subject: Re: Pri/Sec coiling
> 
> Tom,
> 
> > whether a coil is wound clockwise or counter-clockwise depends on how
you
> > look at it :) In other words, if a coil is turned upside down, you have
> > effectively reversed the windings, haven't you?
> 
> Nope (bbg:)
> 
> Malcolm

You are right. I should have remembered this from the  coil I wound in high
school that started from the center and then wound to the top and bottom in
opposite directions. My first attempt had failed because I simply wound two
coils and then flipped one of them. I quickly found that that was the same
as just connecting the two coils in regular series.

Fr. Tom McGahee

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