Re: Shorted turn?

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Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>

Hi Steve,

The top terminal is too far away from the high current areas of the
secondary to make much difference.  The single turn does not have great
coupling either.  Also, the terminal is not that great of RF conductor for
loop currents.  One simple check is that they don't get hot even on 20kW+
coils ;-)

If you really want to know a bunch on this, see:

http://www.abelian.demon.co.uk/tssp/
http://www.abelian.demon.co.uk/tssp/pn2511.pdf.zip
http://www.abelian.demon.co.uk/tssp/pn1710/

Cheers,

	Terry


At 01:14 PM 10/12/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>OK, another newbie question:
>
>Doesn't the toroid on top of the tesla coil act like a
>shorted turn? I'm not sure how you'd prevent without
>causing sharp edges. Perhaps all that would be
>required is a small gap that would be sort of self
>shielded by simply being a very small gap. I don't
>think I'm describing what I'm visualizing very well.
>
>Or tell me that the affect is inconsequential.
>
>Anyone else tackled this?
>
>Steve Greenfield
>
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