A Way to Use Bare Wire on a Toroid

OMG, NASA wastes our tax dollars again. This is *radically* stupid.

John

I wouldn't be at all surprised if it was filed as one of those "employee incentive" programs whereby the guy who thought it up got some small kickback from NASA upon the patent's approval...

Maybe I could patent a Panavise as a unique means of holding a circuit board during soldering so as to avoid having it shift around during work...

I've patented degress 45,48 and 33. Feel free to use the rest, though.

Oh come on..Patent 4975672 (keeps windings from touching) .it's not that bad of an idea....

I see these benefits

• Neat looking windings for DIY inductors

• low capacitance

• high voltage

• uses cheap plentiful uninsulated bus wire or just any stripped wire. (Everybody knows Digikey doesn't sell magnet wire...)

• can be made with cheap laser cutting

It's just funny that I've never seen it used anywhere nor thought of making a wire guide.

D from BC

The problem isn't NASA, it's the "tax dollars".

Thanks, Rich

McLynm or whatever is the author of a few books on magnetics. Sort of cookbookish.

Cheers

The worst is the CAD time to make the guide. D from BC