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Re: Why a toroid?
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To: tesla@pupman.com
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Subject: Re: Why a toroid?
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From: Tesla List <mod1@pupman.com>
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Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 23:09:36 -0600 (MDT)
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Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 00:53:59 -0400 (EDT)
From: richard hull <rhull@richmond.infi.net>
To: Tesla List <tesla@pupman.com>
Subject: Re: Why a toroid?
At 09:04 PM 10/7/97 -0600, you wrote:
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>Date: Tue, 07 Oct 1997 19:04:16 +0000
>From: Greg Leyh <lod@pacbell.net>
>To: Tesla List <tesla@pupman.com>
>Subject: Why a toroid?
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>A lot of effort has been directed at fabricating toroids for TC's.
>Has anyone ever tried using a large metal disk as the top electrode?
>A suitably sized disk would have just as much C to gnd as the toroid.
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>I know that I should just try it myself, but I thought I'd ask first.
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>-GL
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>Greg,
It sure would equal a toroid on the cheap, but for the early breakout (lower
voltage) and energy waste due to the sharp edges. The ultimate shape would
be an oblate spheroid, but a good donut type toroid works almost as well.
The disk was actually used by us here in several early eperimental systems
and it made a fine ozone generator and looked like a gas heater jet on high.
Richard Hull, TCBOR