Re: topload questions

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Original poster: "robert & june heidlebaugh by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <rheidlebaugh-at-desertgate-dot-com>

Adam: If you have enough power chicken wire will work, but on a small coil
the sharp corners of the wire will radiate and increase your losses. With a
pole pig it dosent make much differance.
    Robert  H
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 > Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 09:12:05 -0700
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 > Subject: topload questions
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 > Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>"
 > <Beans45601-at-aol-dot-com>
 >
 > I was looking around at some of the really big coils and i noticed that for
 > their top loads, they were just using chicken wire on the outside of a
 > wooden frame. since the chicken wire is mostly holes, woulden't a big peice
 > of chicken wire have the same capicatance as a smallish top toroid? My
 > thinking is that the capicatance is caculated by the surface area, and it
 > seems to me that they would need to have a HUGE top load (made of chicken
 > wire) to equal that of a small "regular" top load. Also, say you had a
 > medium coil that with a medium top load threw, 5' sparks. Then, you added
 > 100 turnes to the same pricary coil and put a metal trash can (or person,
 > or any large object) on the top of the secondary, could you tune the coil
 > again, so that you would get 5' sparks from the big object on top? or would
 > you have to get a much more powerful coil?
 > Thanks
 > Adam
 >
 >