Re: homemade toroid

[Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>]

Hi Brad,

	The differences between a grate of these dimensions and a solid disk are
very tiny and can be totally ignored.

Cheers,

	Terry


At 09:04 PM 7/6/00 -0500, you wrote:
>To all,
>Recently i have constructed a toroid for my new coil out of two 22"
>grill grates and 6" flexible alum ducting,  i arc welded the grates
>together using the handles as spacers and wrapped the ducting around the
>form.  What i am wondering is this, since the middle of the toroid is
>not solid, but a grill grate, does it signifigantly affect the self
>capacitance of the toroid?
>
>Thanks!
>Brad DiGiovine
>