[Elecraft] Another K2 Toroid question

Sat Mar 8 12:06:01 2003

Brian:
  That's not unlikely.  It helps to have a bit of waste wire on the ends 
where the continued bending can be greatest.  Be sure you're counting the 
turns correctly, however.  Every pass through the center is one turn. 
Thus, if you just pass a straight piece of wire through the toroid's hole, 
you have wound one turn.

  You can leave a couple of inches sticking out at the beginning.  Just cut 
off what you don't need after you've stripped and tinned the "ends" near 
the core.  1" of tinned wire should be more than enough.

best wishes,

dave belsley, w1euy

--On Saturday, March 8, 2003 11:35 AM -0500 Brian Wruble 
<[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi guys:  We (Zane and I) are attempting our first toroid, RFC14.  The
> manual says to cut 9" of wire and wind 10 turns.  We have done this, but
> we seem to have used only about 5-6" of the piece of wire we cut.  Are
> we missing something here?  How long should the "pigtails" be?  I
> figured maybe 3/8", but when we finished, we had one 3/8" and one about
> 4" long.
>
> Tnx.  73 de Brian W3BW
>
>
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David A. Belsley
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