RE: The Egg Works - Well, Almost

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Original poster: "Cameron B. Prince" <cplists@xxxxxxxxxx>

Hi,

> I should perhaps keep out, not having followed the entire thread.
> Two thoughts:
>     1) I tend to think that NOT having a conituous/toroidal form
>        would improve things: more fluc out where it can be used.
>        (If eaiser, might try 4 'straight', isolated, cores,
>         approximating a circle.  At least for a test case?)
>
>      (Consider a classic watt hour meter: the field is Wilfully and
>       carefully routed _thru_ the disk, out of the cores.)

As I've stated, this is moving away from Tesla's design which is not
something I want to do. If the toroid shape worked well enough for Tesla,
the museum's two egg and the memorials, it should work well enough for me.
Granted, winding the core would certainly be easier. I just want to build an
accurate representation of the original.


>     2) Of more dignificance, the described 'back and forth' winding of
>        the coils, seems to me to be likely to cancel a lot of
>        flux?  Or am i rong?

I spoke with James and Ken Corum regarding this and according to them, I was
correct in my assumption that the direction going through the core is what
matters, not the direction of the winding back and forth around the core. If
you think about it, this is no different than how a transformer is wound or
your suggested straight cores mentioned above.

Thanks,
Cameron