Re: Ungrounded TC

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

Hi Cory,

You would ge a "bi-polar" Tesla coils like Ralph's:

http://hot-streamer-dot-com/temp/RalphsCoil/BP%2011.jpg

http://hot-streamer-dot-com/temp/RalphsCoil/

Cheers,

	Terry


At 10:52 AM 1/27/2002 -0800, you wrote:
>hello all,
>
>i have yet another hypothetical situation i would like
>some experts to shed some light on:
>
>What would happen if instead of grounding a Tesla
>coil, you had a bottom toroid?
>
>of course the TC would have to be tuned for the
>capacitance of both... but would it work or is
>grounding needed for some reason?
>