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Coil winding
By spinner, Section Homebrewed Electricity Posted on Wed Jan 26, 2005 at 10:04:32 PM MST
about those multiple strands...

ops, thhink I accidentally posted my ?
While I understand electrially what is being done, I am unsure of the mechanics of it. Example: are theese strands laid side by side, or twisted (seems doubtful to me) ?
Thanx
Spinner

Coil winding | 5 comments (5 topical)

Re: Coil winding (3.00 / 0) (#1)
by picmacmillan on Thu Jan 27, 2005 at 06:08:47 AM MST

hello spinner...if you're talking about winding a coil in a coil winder, you try to get them side by side...in the real world as you go, they will sometimes go on top of each other or in some way not be perfect.....when i solder the ends to the next coil, i twist them so as to make it easier to solder.....also a tip while making the coils is to use a hot glue gun, and every so often, give the coil a little shot of glue...this helps hold it together when you take it apart.....pickster
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Re: Coil winding (3.00 / 0) (#2)
by spinner on Thu Jan 27, 2005 at 10:02:56 PM MST

thanks for the reply....have wound some with my winder in the past, was just VERY curious on the mechanical process of winding with, say, two strands of smaller wire that equal a larger size wire ....I have noticed that the Dans use that process quite often

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Re: Coil winding (3.00 / 0) (#3)
by spinner on Sun Jan 30, 2005 at 05:18:59 PM MST

jeeze!
meant to make my ? a two part one, the other part being: if a coil were to have 200 turns of # 12, lets say....would winding that coil with two conductors, each one-half the diameter of a single #12, mean the coil would have 100 turns of the two smaller diameter wire? Is there some sort of rule of thumb that I have failed to absorb in reading posts on the subject?
thanx
Spinner

Re: Coil winding (3.00 / 0) (#4)
by ghurd on Mon Jan 31, 2005 at 04:47:53 PM MST

You missed something. Can't say what.
Look at Hugh's site or here for more formulas.
Half the length OR half the turns, means half the induced voltage.
Diameter gets confusing and needs way more information.
'Half' the wire gauge only means 4 times 'half' the resistance (speaking in terms of the conceptual 'half', so don't get the calculator).
G-
Ghurd.info
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Re: Coil winding (3.00 / 0) (#5)
by spinner on Tue Feb 01, 2005 at 06:12:42 PM MST

that's where my question origonated.....my thought was that I would be inducing about the same total voltage within the two smaller( in parallel) conductors ( each 1/2 the diameter of a single large conductor) because 100 turns of those 2 smaller conductors would be the same as 200 turns of a single larger conductor when a magnet passed over them.....then I found myself asking: other than making it (perhaps) easier to wind the coil with the 2 smaller in parallel conductors, won't the resulting coil tend to generate more heat?
thanx
Spinner

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