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@Tony - Questions about my Display PCBs:
In the kit I have: I do have 33x pcb boards - 26 are copper colored, 7 are silver colored.
* Why are 8 pcb boards slightly larger in diameter than the others (1 is copper colored and 7 are silver colored.)? * Of the 33x pcb boards four of the copper boards have shallow very fine clean traces compared to the other pcb boards which have wider and deeper cut traces. Are the four uniquely traced pcb boards a different machine or machine tool? Note: They are the same pattern just different cut.
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I agree with ....Maple - Fun.
I just finished the board forms last night and this morning. That was 260 pieces of sanding, cleaning, assembling with more than 650 touches to the assemblies. Today, now starting the pcb board forms. I'm going to make all the forms first then take a week(?) to wind. It is 3.456 - 3,520 windings for all the board coils and 1,518 windings for the display pcbs. That is a total, without errors, of up to 5,038 windings. You throw in testing every one - 65x board + 33x display = 98 coils and I think I know why Tony may put out the face -
. Me it is just -
@...Maple - I like the idea of a clicker - metronome (phone app?) to count winds. I was also thinking how to hook up my drill and just whiz on the wire. Along with - How to make a length counter. The process would then be: Hook wire, whirrrrr, cut. Hook wire, whirrrr, cut.
Tony - by chance after your tens of thousands of windings - Do you know what length the board and pcb coil wire lengths are for their respective coils?
POWER SUPPLY: Just today - 10/9/12, I got an RC e-mail with an add for a small 150W, 7A bench PSU for $18.59US. It looks very nice. I thought it was $15.xx this morning when I first saw the ad.
OR you know you can grab a handful of batteries. Tape them together and wire them series/parallel to get your 12V. Good for single coil tests? The power supply is at HobbyKing:
http://p6trc.emv2.com/HM?a=ENX7Cqkj9AFW ... _HhdApYldr
@ ...Ed ---- When done it sounds like your board would go at auction for ~$5K US??? Do not forget to post pictures.
The guy I bought my soldering iron from three in some MG chemicals 23 gauge Sn63/Pb37 RA flux yada yada yada. I don't know the difference between solder so I am hoping I haven't screwed up. It sure makes soldering easy having this gauge compared to the big stuff I used on RC electronics. 
