Re: Edgewound primary

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Original poster: "Bert Pool" <bert.tx-at-prodigy-dot-net> 

I have to second Kevin's observations.  I've put over 200 KV on a flat 
aluminum flashing strip about 12 to 15 inches wide and had NO corona on the 
edges!  A 3 inch primary strip with a puny 15 kv, or so, will have 
absolutely no corona.
Bert Pool


At 05:14 PM 10/17/2004 -0600, you wrote:
>Original poster: Bigggcoil-at-aol-dot-com
>Rick
>
>   I have made many aluminum ribbon primaries in the past, all worked 
> well.  Corona is not an issue because the ribbon spiral acts more like a 
> flat plate in terms of corona,  the E field is evenly distributed accross 
> the ribbon.  I have never had a corona issue in any of my coils up to 14 
> kV primary voltages.  I'd do it.
>
>Kevin E.