AguycalledSimon
pfm Member
awkwardbydesign, that's a little disappointing? not at all awkward! Please consider changing to "accommodatingbydesign"
Sure, i see no reason not to use PTFE or similar - i used kapton because I had some, but i do like both the transparency and also the minimal thickness. as you will see shortly, i don't wind in a spiral, though - just one long run along the length - as the tape i use is a little over twice the width of the foil, the excess can be bent to cover the other side of the foil, so one strip of tape fully insulates both sides in one go - i just see this as simpler, neater and quicker to do. It will be better explained in the next episode (i hope)
regarding directionality, i was not trying to indicate that one way was correct and the other wrong - rather just that it sets the live and return in opposing directions, based on the way they came off the spool. My plugs are colour-coded to show which is used for the source (grey plug is source, black plug is receive - this is not the same colour shown in the 3D above but is what i show in the kit pictures), so they always end up being used in the same direction - as you say, i feel its more about burn-in and "aligning the crystals", so that, as you say, they were always consistently run in the same direction as they were during burn-in. I have some background in auditing manufacturing processes, and although i don't know Mundorf in that way, i would be pretty surprised if it was not always the same from them, not because they necessarily think its better, but purely from a manufacturing efficiency perspective, it is easier to set up the line to run consistently the same way
I saw and considered the star line when i was looking at the Eichmanns, and there are certainly some similarities and they look like a good alternative. Because the connectors are rounded, though, they are more suited (in my view) to coax than foils - the Eichmann connectors are flat lugs, with a divider between them, that makes them work nicely with foils, although i see no reason that the Star Line could not work, if you did a little 'shaping' of the foil, to make a better connection to the pin
Sure, i see no reason not to use PTFE or similar - i used kapton because I had some, but i do like both the transparency and also the minimal thickness. as you will see shortly, i don't wind in a spiral, though - just one long run along the length - as the tape i use is a little over twice the width of the foil, the excess can be bent to cover the other side of the foil, so one strip of tape fully insulates both sides in one go - i just see this as simpler, neater and quicker to do. It will be better explained in the next episode (i hope)
regarding directionality, i was not trying to indicate that one way was correct and the other wrong - rather just that it sets the live and return in opposing directions, based on the way they came off the spool. My plugs are colour-coded to show which is used for the source (grey plug is source, black plug is receive - this is not the same colour shown in the 3D above but is what i show in the kit pictures), so they always end up being used in the same direction - as you say, i feel its more about burn-in and "aligning the crystals", so that, as you say, they were always consistently run in the same direction as they were during burn-in. I have some background in auditing manufacturing processes, and although i don't know Mundorf in that way, i would be pretty surprised if it was not always the same from them, not because they necessarily think its better, but purely from a manufacturing efficiency perspective, it is easier to set up the line to run consistently the same way
I saw and considered the star line when i was looking at the Eichmanns, and there are certainly some similarities and they look like a good alternative. Because the connectors are rounded, though, they are more suited (in my view) to coax than foils - the Eichmann connectors are flat lugs, with a divider between them, that makes them work nicely with foils, although i see no reason that the Star Line could not work, if you did a little 'shaping' of the foil, to make a better connection to the pin