Re: Styrofoam top loads

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Original poster: "cd by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <vbprg1-at-hotmail-dot-com>

I made a torus out of a pool noodle from the pool store
its was pretty easy to make. Unfortuneatly I havent been able to get it to
work, but
my hollow aluminum ducting one works great.
The pool noodle is made up of open celled PE plastic
I am guessing I cant get it to work beacuse I
either cant tune to the point necessary (lack of equiptment/inexperience),
or its capacitance is so high my system cant drive it?

Would it be correct in thinking this type of torus would have a much
greater capacitance than a torus made of hollow aluminum tubing?

Would a torus with a sytrofoam center have a different capacitance
than a hollow aluminum torus?

Can you islolate a torus in space then
 measure the capacitance with a multimeter?

Thanks
Chris

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Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 2:56 PM
Subject: Re: Styrofoam top loads


> Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<Teslamagnifier-at-aol-dot-com>
>
> Try a pool toy or an old life preserver ring.  The pool rings come in
various
> sizes.
> bill
>