2013-01-10 Colorful Multitapped Coil

I built this coil, modeled somewhat after the coil I saw in this Youtube video.  It uses 24 AWG solid telephone wire, and the winding color indicates the number of the winding according to the resistor color code: 1 (brown) through 0 (black).  The first and last windings are 5 turns each.  The windings in between are 10 turns as can be seen in the wiring diagram beside the coil.  The core is a TOR-61 core, from allelectronics.com.  I’m going to try to mount it on a small piece of wood with a terminal strip.

Inductances:

BRN to BRN (Start) 0.08 mH

BRN to BRN-RED (gives an invalid negative number)

BRN to RED-ORG 0.695 mH

BRN to ORG-YEL 1.96 mH

BRN to YEL-GRN 3.91 mH

BRN to GRN-BLU 6.6 mH

BRN to BLU-VIO 10.1 mH

BRN to VIO-GRY 14.4 mH

BRN to GRY-WHT 19.5 mH

BRN to WHT-BLK 22.5 mH

BRN to BLK (end) 25.2 mH

The accuracy of the meter I used is not so good at the low and high ends of the measurements.

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