Re: ROC

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• Subject: Re: ROC
• From: Rick Holland <rickh-at-ghg-dot-net>
• Date: Sat, 08 Feb 1997 17:36:38 -0600
• Reply-To: rickh-at-ghgcorp-dot-com
• Subscriber: rickh-at-ghg-dot-net Mon Feb 10 21:52:53 1997

Tesla List wrote:
> 

> Rick,
> 
> Sorry - I usually spell out an acronym before using it. ROC means Radius
> of Curvature, and is the (smaller) diameter of the tubing used to make
> the toroid. While the capacitance of the toroid is mainly governed by
> the outer diameter, the breakout voltage is primarily governed by the
> ROC.
> However, now that I look at my diagram, I see that I've misused the term
> in my post: when I said I had a 8" x 32" toroid, this ACTUALLY means
> that the torus diameter is 8", so that the ROC would actually only be
> 4".
> 
>    Torus
>    Diam
>   |    |
> 
>     *            *
>   *   * ------ *   *
>     *            *
> 
>   |  Outer Diam    |
> 
> Safe coilin to you, Rick!
> 
> -- Bert H --

-- 
Bert

Thank you very much! This lessens my head-scratching considerably. Now
the posts I've seen make much more sense. Back into lurk mode...

  Rick Holland

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