Winding a Tesla coil secondary

[fcdog555]

what was the point of putting the glaze on?

[TheLightningStalker]

Now try it with #34 wire!

[dawnlightening]

Whats the torque and RPM of the winder motor and RPM of the coil former (the PVC pipe) ? Thanks!

[Moladyets]

You make the process look easy with your innovative setup.

[codeartha]

where did you bought your wire in my electronical store the most i could have was 55meters at once so it means lots of solderings to do between two coils

[plasmatron6]

@codeartha i've got mine from a motor rewinding supplies

[roman055412]

einfach nur cool!

[BuiltandTested]

Where do the ends of the wires attach? Does one of them attach to the toroid? The other doesn't connect to the primary, right?

[CrashByron]

@BuiltandTested The wire at the top of the secondary goes to the toroid and the bottom wire goes to earth ground.

[tq404]

What music?

[elMick]

@tq404 Burst Generator by the Chemical Brothers.

[sprogdiklis]

what did you use for coating ?

[plasmatron6]

@sprogdiklis glaze for metal or wood i think its something like polyurethane in liqud

[sprogdiklis]

@plasmatron6 can i use polyester or polyurethane glue ?

[plasmatron6]

@sprogdiklis dunno, but you can buy wood/metal glaze in every DIY shop..

[HorizonDelta]

Good alternative science! Also watch: "Wonderful electric energy" by HorizonDelta ;-)

[jcmegabyte]

Very cool - I gotta make of of these one day! :-)

[banny123456]

Klasika, to isté čo robím ja až po to lakovanie :DD, to máš nejaký epoxid alebo čo...akryl zaschne iba do určitej hrúbky takže pri hrubej vrstve by nestuhol v celom objeme...Každopádne ja to osprejujem, hodím pred to ohrievač, za 30 min znova a takto asi 5-6x až tam nieje tak 0,3 až 0,4mm hrubá vrstva perfektne vytvrdnutého laku...

[banny123456]

PS: mne sa sa motorček moc neosvedčil...ta to natrvdo pripojím na stieračový motor, ten má parádnu silu. (hodí sa pre väčšie hrúbky, ale treba nožnú reguláciu lebo to rukou nebrzdíš :D )

Inač, čo to bude? typujem že SGTC s TC341 :)

[plasmatron6]

motorcek z tlaciarne premna postacuje, len celo by to este nejaku regulaciu. napr. pedal na nohu...to by bol luxus ;) btw... jj typujes dobre, bude to SG s tyma kondmy co si mi dal, len momentalne este zhanam dake lepsie moty, a konecne cem vyskusat rotacne iskrisko..

[banny123456]

Tak, držím palce....

PS: priprav sa na ten rámus čo sgtc robí...

[zhhyr]

Ahh- also, whay material is the coil form made of ? I've heard that PVC isn't good as it affects the Q factor (negatively) of the coil. But it's relatively cheap.

I'm taking a microwave oven txfmr apart for re-winding and will save the HV wire.

It'll be interesting to see how many feet there is. Takes forever to get all the laminations off though.

[plasmatron6]

Hi, thanks.

Yes its PVC everyone using it, and yes its epoxy for sealing and insulation.

it's not that bad when something fails during winding process i just stop the motor and catch wire and fix any error and than continute, but i acctualy enjoyed working with this quite thick wire 0,4mm i had no problems during winding and it takes me only about 15min to wound it.

btw.. good luck with that re-winding MOT i newer try it but it must me really hard work ;)..

[zhhyr]

VERY COOL way to wind a coil !!!!

I wind much smaller air core coils for radio work, THIS IS MASTERFUL !!!

I calculate the coil to be about 55 millihenries. A MONSTER !

Also a huge amount of magnet wire.

Calculate about 2020 feet of wire !

Expensive. no room for errors.

If something falls apart during the winding process, you'll have a useless mess of tangled wire.

I guess that was epoxy used to seal the finished coil ? That's what I use

[jokoon]

The music is so awesome !

What is it ?

[plasmatron6]

The Chemical Brothers-Burst Generator ...yay ,how i love house ;)

[Filo2Th]

lol, ze si to nenatieral kreditkou? :D

btw  good job :)

[plasmatron6]

jj, velka vdaka patri slovenskej sporitelni ;)

[Tab54o]

Cool. interesting you wind your wire the from the back side and I wind mine from the front and you epoxied yours from he front and i do mine pouring on the top haha.

When I made my winding video i was really hungry and not thinking straight and couldn't find some stuff.

Do you ever get breakout in th area where you have the wire going through the pipe at the top?

[plasmatron6]

hh, thanks

actually i never get brakeout there, its a really good way how to start/end wire winding, all my coils are made this way.. those spacings are soo small that they can be neglected i think ;)

[Tab54o]

ive gottn some breakout on the sharp 90 corners before. Thats why I just super glue the wire with some tap so its all on the outside flat. Making holes is a lot easier though. I hate gluing it.

[plasmatron6]

it's a polyurehtan i think

[temnymnich]

nice dude, ive been always a great fan of ya work, can you tell me what kind of vaseline did u use? :D