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Re: More on Top Toroid
Tesla List wrote:
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> Subscriber: jd231825-at-engr.colostate.edu Sun Feb 2 17:41:41 1997
> Date: Sun, 2 Feb 1997 10:00:15 -0700
> From: Jeff Detweiler <jd231825-at-engr.colostate.edu>
> To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> Subject: More on Top Toroid
>
> Greetings everyone,
>
> I really appreciate all the informative replies to my original posting.
> Just a small clarification though--must the center of the toroid be a
> conducting material also? I would think so for best electrostatic
> shielding, but this would make "toroid" a bit of a misnomer since the
> center is not really open in the sense of it being air or at least some
> nonconducting material. In other words:
>
> /\_______/\ (toroid side view: plate in middle is conducting also?)
> \/ | | \/
> | |
> | | (coil secondary)
>
> Thanks,
> Jeff
Jeff,
It doesn't HAVE to be, but it's often more convenient to make the center
out of conductive material, like a pair of pie-pans or pizza pans.
-- Bert --