[Amps] winding conductors on edge into inductances TSPA

[John T. M. Lyles]

>Message: 2
>How do they wind edge wound inductors?
>I can conceive of a cylindrical former with a helical slot in it, 
>and the well anealed strip being wound into it, but I would have 
>thought that getting the strip out afterwards must be fun. Or is it 
>a collapsible former? That would be even more fun from a viewpoint 
>of the tolerances on the slot and the uniformity of the helix.
>73
>Peter G3RZP

I am going to make a guess for this, when you use tooling on a 
rotating cylinder of raw stock, a spiral of metal comes off, in the 
shape of a coil. If you do this with a propertly set up lathe, you 
should have a scrap piece which is the desired coil. Now if you can 
do this work with a lathe, and cut out exactly the coil you would 
like, turning the ID and OD, and the thickness, you should have the 
conductor you need already in the turned diameter of the coil. Then 
it would be wound onto a former, screwed into it, so to speak. Does 
this agree with reality? I don't know.

John
K5PRO