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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: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 08:45:35 -0600 (MDT)
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Date: Wed, 08 Oct 1997 20:13:28 +0000
From: Greg Leyh <lod@pacbell.net>
To: Tesla List <tesla@pupman.com>
Subject: Re: Why a toroid?
Richard Hull wrote:
> 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.
Sounds like there were few, if any dominant streamers with the disk...
Perhaps a long streamer, even as sharp and pointy as it is, really can
support a large voltage gradient along its length.
-GL