Aluminum Magnet Wire Air Core Experiment
Just an update, first trial run on the 4T SS SSG, with a 5 filar Aluminum Magnet Wire coil, no core. In this build i added a "coil sniffer" wind to the standard Air Core transformer. It was wound on with 30 AWG, 21-22 turns, then taped, and the letz'd 5 filar on top. Worked out pretty close to plan (hopes). The filar ended up being about 148 turns, the wires were 100' in length, equal trigger gauge. Thanks for the help, 49'er, Blackchisel and all, all of your tips helped a lot, she fired up first try, this time.
No big conlcusions on the aluminum wire, other than it works, it was cheap, and the savings more than paid for all of the other components of the build. As 49'er had pointed out (but unfortunately I had bought it already... might have been better to buy a bigger gauge, slightly.. say 16 or 14 AWG, to negate higher resistance factors). It's all an experiment!
SSG Aluminum Air Core Experiment PT. 3 - YouTube
Just an update, first trial run on the 4T SS SSG, with a 5 filar Aluminum Magnet Wire coil, no core. In this build i added a "coil sniffer" wind to the standard Air Core transformer. It was wound on with 30 AWG, 21-22 turns, then taped, and the letz'd 5 filar on top. Worked out pretty close to plan (hopes). The filar ended up being about 148 turns, the wires were 100' in length, equal trigger gauge. Thanks for the help, 49'er, Blackchisel and all, all of your tips helped a lot, she fired up first try, this time.
No big conlcusions on the aluminum wire, other than it works, it was cheap, and the savings more than paid for all of the other components of the build. As 49'er had pointed out (but unfortunately I had bought it already... might have been better to buy a bigger gauge, slightly.. say 16 or 14 AWG, to negate higher resistance factors). It's all an experiment!
SSG Aluminum Air Core Experiment PT. 3 - YouTube
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