Re: Styrofoam top loads

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Original poster: "Writeme Now by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <writeme42-at-hotmail-dot-com>

Chris,
> > Can you islolate a torus in space then
> >  measure the capacitance with a multimeter?

If u isolate a torus in space, u'r gonna need some
long leads on u'r multimeter.  :-)

D.H.
>
>Hi Chris,
>
>On 27 Sep 2002, at 12:21, Tesla list wrote:
>
> > Original poster: "cd by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
><vbprg1-at-hotmail-dot-com>
> >
> > I made a torus out of a pool noodle from the pool store
> > its was pretty easy to make. Unfortuneatly I havent been able to get it 
>to
> > work, but
> > my hollow aluminum ducting one works great.
> > The pool noodle is made up of open celled PE plastic
> > I am guessing I cant get it to work beacuse I
> > either cant tune to the point necessary (lack of 
>equiptment/inexperience),
> > or its capacitance is so high my system cant drive it?
> >
> > Would it be correct in thinking this type of torus would have a much
> > greater capacitance than a torus made of hollow aluminum tubing?
> >
> > Would a torus with a sytrofoam center have a different capacitance
> > than a hollow aluminum torus?
> >
> > Can you islolate a torus in space then
> >  measure the capacitance with a multimeter?
>
>If you do that, it is no longer isolated.
>
>Regards,
>Malcolm