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Toroid capacitance - was Re: Not just AOL???



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

Hi Jim,

The program at:

http://hot-streamer-dot-com/TeslaCoils/Programs/E-Tesla6.zip

Will find the secondary resonant frequency of a coil with various toroids.
See the readme and *.txt files included in the zip.

Cheers,

	Terry

At 05:38 AM 3/5/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>
>Hi all,
>How would one approximate the capacitance of a toroid. I just ran Tesla
>coil cad and it determined that I would need 16.36pF and that the
>secondary had 8.9pF by itself. Does this mean I need an additional
>7.46(totaling 16.36) OR 16.36 ON TOP OF than the 8.9? The toroid I built
>is a 3 inch ID dryer duct w/ aluminum tape job that uses two pie plates
>for a form. What would it rate at, and how do I determine this for
>myself? Thanks Jim L
>