Re: HV Wire - electrical tape?

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Original poster: "Jonathon Reinhart by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <tc_jonathon-at-hotmail-dot-com>

Currently, My Coil is just plain 600 V wire, and It works fine... I was 
just curious... But everyone says use GTO wire, or Coax... This stuff is 
small guage... what about the Tank Circuit? I have 6 AWG Welding Cable for 
these circuits! Wouldn't the small guage of GTO/Coax kill efficiency?

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Jonathon Reinhart
hot-streamer-dot-com/jonathon


>From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
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>Subject: Re: HV Wire - electrical tape?
>Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2003 13:17:54 -0700
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>Original poster: "Dr.Resonance by way of Terry Fritz 
><teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <resonance-at-jvlnet-dot-com>
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>
>It's a waste of time and ends in a cobble job that may or may not work
>properly.
>
>Just use standard neon GTO wire for hooking up all NST powered coils.  It
>works great and is flexable.
>
>Dr. Resonance
>
>
>
>
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>Subject: Re: HV Wire - electrical tape?
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> > Original poster: "Jonathon Reinhart by way of Terry Fritz
><teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <tc_jonathon-at-hotmail-dot-com>
> >
> > Hello everyone, I'm back after AOL stopped delivering ALL of my TCML
> > emails... ( I'm Kidd6488-at-aol-dot-com )
> >
> >     On the topic of cheap HV wire, what about wrapping any guage of wire
> > with electrical tape?  Even though it's UL listed for only 600V, aren't
>the
> > ratings much higher? I've seen some for 10,000 V I believe...
> >     Put a few layers of that on there and you could have some 30, 40, 50
>kV
> > wire, right?
> >
> > Jonathon Reinhart
> > hot-streamer-dot-com/jonathon
> >
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> >