Re: Calculating capacitance of stacked toroids . . .

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Original poster: Mddeming-at-aol-dot-com 

In a message dated 9/9/04 9:48:01 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
tesla-at-pupman-dot-com writes:
Actually, the archives came back up and the general consensus was that:

Ctotal = 50% (C1+C2)

where:  C1 = capacitance toroid 1
            C2 = capacitance toroid 2

Dan

Hi Dan,
This doesn't seem to make sense: If C1=C2 then Ctot= 50%(2*C1)=C1 implies 
zero gain from adding the second toroid. I think that Ctot= 
(C1+C2)/2  +50%(C1+C2)/2 i.e. the average value plus 50% would seem closer 
to my experience.

Matt D.