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Re: secoundary wire size



Original poster: FutureT@xxxxxxx In a message dated 10/10/06 11:48:34 PM Eastern Daylight Time, tesla@xxxxxxxxxx writes:

>What is a good gauage wire for a 4" / 20" coil powered by a 12kv 30mA xformer?
>
>I wrapped it with about 1460 turns of #28g wire, but it is quite
>thin and I couldn't get a 100% perfect shinny copper tube
>look...there are some extremely small spaces between some of the wires.
>
>My question is: What would be the best size wire to use if I were to
>re-order another spool and wrap another pipe?
>
>Thanks a lot,
>
>John.


John,

Those little gaps won't matter.  28awg is an excellent wire size for such a
coil.

John