Re: Why a toroid?

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• Subject: Re: Why a toroid?
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• Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 08:45:35 -0600 (MDT)
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Date: Wed, 08 Oct 1997 20:13:28 +0000
From: Greg Leyh <lod-at-pacbell-dot-net>
To: Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
Subject: Re: Why a toroid? 

Richard Hull wrote:


> It sure would equal a toroid on the cheap, but for the early breakout (lower
> voltage) and energy waste due to the sharp edges.  The ultimate shape would
> be an oblate spheroid, but a good donut type toroid works almost as well.
> The disk was actually used by us here in several early eperimental systems
> and it made a fine ozone generator and looked like a gas heater jet on high.

Sounds like there were few, if any dominant streamers with the disk...
Perhaps a long streamer, even as sharp and pointy as it is, really can
support a large voltage gradient along its length.


-GL

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