Re: what is value of two toroids for topload?

["Rick Richard" <ollopa-at-jps-dot-net> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)]

You're acutally not putting them in series.  You're effectively 
increasing the surface area of your toroid plate, which should be the same as
parallelling them.




>Original poster: "John Morawa" <morawaj-at-interaccess-dot-com> 
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>Hello,
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>When changing the topload from a one toroid to a two toroid configuration
>(small toroid on bottom, large on top) how do you calculate the total
>capacitance?  Does it go down (caps in series) or does it actually increase?

>I want to know so I can adjust the QTC.XLS spreadsheet appropriately.
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>P.S.  Thanks everyone for all the input about increasing primary tank
>capacitor size.
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>Thanks,
>John M.
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