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Re: Toroid Capacitance calculated without earth-distance?
Tesla List wrote:
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> Original Poster: "Ruud de Graaf" <rdegraaf-at-daxis.nl>
> Maybe i missed something, but could somebody tell me how it is possible
that in
> the calculation of the toroid capacitance the distance to ground is ignored.
> IMHO it should be actually inverted proportional.
If the ground is very close, yes, but after some distance from ground
the capacitance tends to a limit value. This happens with any shape,
and the limit is the "body capacitance", or "capacitance to infinity"
of the object.
Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz