Re: Mot Secondaries

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Original poster: "Arpit Thomas" <arpit-at-inzo-dot-org> 

If you want to pursue the idea, tell me and i'll measure the wire with my 
scanner, in theory should give resolution of 1/1200 th of an inch ;)

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On 15/05/2004 at 9:12 AM Tesla list wrote:

 >Original poster: "Arpit Thomas" <arpit-at-inzo-dot-org>
 >
 >I took the secondary off a mot and have it lying around as some (very)
 >effective 'copper knuckles' .  I'll go measure it now with my cheap
 >plastic
 >calipers. ook, 5 minutes of measuring gives me 0.1 mm. There is glue on
 >the
 >windings, and its in a square shape, which means winding a coil off them
 >will be pretty difficult.
 >
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 >On 9/05/2004 at 8:14 PM Tesla list wrote:
 >
 > >Original poster: "Allan and Sandra" <ascott16-at-cogeco.ca>
 > >
 > >hello everyone
 > >i recently dismantled an average size mot just to see if i could do it
 > >without damaging the windings and i was successfull, and what comes to
 > >mind
 > >if the secondary wire would be an appropriate gauge for a tesla secondary
 > >and if it would be long enough.
 > >does anyone have an idea of what gauge wire it might be, and possible
 > >length.
 > >also my power supply will consist of 4 large mots.
 > >any light shed on this subject would be appreciated.
 > >Thanks
 > >Al Scott in Canada