Re: Why a toroid?

To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject: Re: Why a toroid?
From: Tesla List <mod1-at-pupman-dot-com>
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 13:09:04 -0600 (MDT)
Approved: mod1-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com



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Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 10:51:55 -0500
From: "DR.RESONANCE" <DR.RESONANCE-at-next-wave-dot-net>
To: Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
Subject: Re: Why a toroid? 

To: Greg

Bill Wysock did back in the mid 1970's.  It seemed to work fine but lacked
the large surface area of the torus.

DR.RESONANCE-at-next-wave-dot-net


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> From: Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> Subject: Why a toroid? 
> Date: Tuesday,October 07,1997 10:04 PM
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> Date: Tue, 07 Oct 1997 19:04:16 +0000
> From: Greg Leyh <lod-at-pacbell-dot-net>
> To: Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-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