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Re: Dual top loads



Original poster: Jim Lux <jimlux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

At 05:48 PM 3/16/2007, you wrote:
Original poster: "Todd Reeve" <todd.reeve@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

While checking out pictures of coils different sites on the Tesla Coil Ring, I noticed that some of the coils that use flexible aluminum ducting for a toroid sometimes have 2 stacked toroids while the coils that have a spun aluminum toroid have only one. I surmise that this is to increase the capacitance of the top load. Is this needed when using ducting since the wall thickness of ducting is thin compared with a spun toroid?


Wall thickness isn't all that important, electrically.

Probably the more common use of dual dryer vent toroids is that they are cheaper. At hundreds of bucks a crack for the spun ones, most people have only one sitting around to fool with.