Glossary
Coil Winder Terms & Vocabulary
15 essential coil winder terms with plain-English definitions: the vocabulary you’ll hear in training and on day one.
Key coil winder vocabulary
These 15 terms come up constantly in coil winder training, on the job and in interviews. Knowing them helps you follow instructions, document accurately and sound prepared.
- Bobbin
- Coil form.
- Coil
- Wound wire.
- Hipot test
- High-voltage insulation test.
- Insulation
- Electrical barrier.
- Layer
- Row of turns.
- Lead
- Wire end.
- Lockout/tagout
- Energy isolation before servicing.
- Magnet wire
- Insulated copper wire.
- PPE
- Personal protective equipment.
- Resistance
- Opposition to current.
- SOP
- Standard operating procedure.
- Tension
- Wire tightness.
- Transformer
- Changes voltage.
- Turn
- One loop of wire.
- Varnish
- Coating.
Practice these terms
Test yourself with the free Coil Winder practice test: it includes vocabulary questions built from this list. For a complete course, see Coil Winder training.
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