Re: Coil Trouble

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Original poster: "Gerry Reynolds" <gerryreynolds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

You could try to remove one inner turn of the primary if clearance is a
problem and you have enough outer turns.

Gerry R.


> >Original poster: Bob81818@xxxxxxx
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> >        If I were to go about lowering the secondary to increase
coupling,
> > I'd have to make my primary opening bigger to make sure of no arc overs.
> > Right? 0.375" above primary for a k of 0.153 would leave just 0.375"
give
> > or take a little. Somehow I doubt that's sufficient space between coils.
> > I built my primary for my 3.5" coil but sense it fit closely enough to
my
> > new coil diameter I used it. Otherwise I wouldn't have left myself so
> > little space. The caps were about 47nF. As for the 4 stack, do they have
> > to have a center tap ground to work properly? Am I on the right track on
> > all the figuring or am I missing something? Please let me know, Thanks
> > for the help so far.
> >        Dan E.
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