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Re: Toroid Design .
At 11:22 AM 12/20/98 -0700, you wrote:
>Original Poster: bertpool-at-ticnet-dot-com
>
>Date forwarded: Sat, 19 Dec 1998 14:00:43 -0700
>Date sent: Sat, 19 Dec 1998 10:10:04 -0700
>To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
>Subject: Re: Toroid Design .
>Forwarded by: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
>From: Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
>
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>>>I was think about building one and covering it with old news
>> papers and Plaster of Paris. Sand it smooth with the electric sander then
>> painting it with something that is conductive. The inside of the toriod
will
>> be hollow. I was wondering if filling the toroid with large balls of
>> aluminum foil would allow it to store up a larger charge.
>>
>> Gary Weaver
>>
>>
>
>The inside of a spherical or toroidal discharge electrode has zero volts
>charge inside. It does not matter whether you fill the inside with balls of
>aluminum foil or even with Greg Leyhs (see his web site for a good
>example), they will have no charge on them. The surrounding electrode
>effectively shields them. The Tesla coil does not see anything inside the
>toroid. The outside, however is a different matter. Hemispheres on the
>surface of a toroid just may increase the effective capacitance (Tesla
>constructed his largest top this way).
>
>Bert Pool
Now that you mention it, thats right. The knob hill Van De Draff had a lab
inside the spheres with people inside them. A TC would be no different. But
I think potential difference is why its possible for someone to be inside.
There is no potential difference inside the sphere or toroid because
resistance is almost zero.
Gary Weaver