- Posted by Graham Armitage on Wednesday 24 September 2014 - 20:18:26
I have tried modelling all kinds of toroid shapes in JAVATC and the math used in that calculator suggests the same as Steve says, it is very close res...
- Posted by Graham Armitage on Wednesday 24 September 2014 - 20:18:26
...effect too. One could start getting creative with toroid construction. Aluminum and copper tubing makes ring toroids expensive (I think I read that Er...
- Posted by Graham Armitage on Wednesday 24 September 2014 - 20:18:26
Too thin tubing should be avoided. I once had a 24" diameter toroid made from quarter inch copper tubes. There were arcs going from the bottom of the ...
- Posted by Graham Armitage on Wednesday 24 September 2014 - 20:18:26
Too thin tubing should be avoided. I once had a 24" diameter toroid made from quarter inch copper tubes. There were arcs going from the bottom of t...
- Posted by Graham Armitage on Wednesday 24 September 2014 - 20:18:26
Spacing between ring was about 2cm. I later replaced the toroid by a solid one of the same overall size. Didn't even have to retune the coil and the a...
- Posted by Graham Armitage on Wednesday 24 September 2014 - 20:18:26
My stacked ring toroid has space between tubes that is roughly 1.5x the tube diameter.
Works well enough, i do get stray spark now and then but ...
- Posted by Graham Armitage on Wednesday 24 September 2014 - 20:18:26
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- Posted by Graham Armitage on Wednesday 24 September 2014 - 20:18:26
So I combed through photos and websites, pulling anecdotal data from working ring toroids. Coupling that with the feedback from this thread, I came up...
- Posted by Graham Armitage on Wednesday 24 September 2014 - 20:18:26
My interest was piqued by the discussion on partial surface toroids, as it's always been a puzzle to me why so many folks use hard to make continuous ...
- Posted by HV Enthusiast on Tuesday 13 August 2013 - 20:09:24
...h the threaded section pointing up and out of the toroid.
If secondary HV lead corona develops due to insulation breakdown I found that you can u...