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Re: [TCML] Tesla's topload



Have you modeled the 'Tesla topload' spheroid with hemispherical bumps a la Wardenclyffe? Always looked like a complicated and expensive design to me but one that seems to fascinate some Tesla believers.

Ed

Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz wrote:

On 16:59, jhowson4@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Well Steve, experimental evidence and experience always supersedes theory. Being an individual who wants to go into the field of high voltage research upon graduation, I am going to have to play with that software you have. =)

So I guess the real question is, where is the charge going? Since it does not seem logical that a 50% decrease in surface area would yield only a 10% -15% decrease in capacitance. So something else must be going on here.

I suppose that the most logical explanation would be that charge is actually being stored on the interior of the structure for these open geometry designs. Maybe due to the incompleteness of the conductor Faraday's law does not apply with the same rigor as it would in a solid sphere model.

Charges in the interior of the structure are insignificant. Practically all of it is just more concentrated on the exterior than it would be in a solid surface, what leads to smaller breakout voltage too. Observe this simulation of the electric field around the wires of a segmented toroid charged to 1 V. There is practically no field inside, and no charge, and even the field on the wires at the inner part of the toroid (right) is small.
http://www.coe.ufrj.br/~acmq/tesla/partialtoroid.gif

Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz

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