Re: Spheres on toroids

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Original poster: "Peter Terren" <pterren-at-iinet-dot-net.au> 

Hi Tom
I put a sphere on a toroid with my 18 inch coil as I didn't have a large
toroid at the time. I needed to use a breakout point to get anything from
the sphere otherwise the streamers were from the toroid and directed
downward. Now I use a toroid made from a truck inner tube (33 x 9) covered
with aluminium tape which works fine (without a sphere).

http://members.iinet-dot-net.au/~pterren/feedback11.htm

Peter (Tesla Downunder)

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Subject: Spheres on toroids


 > Original poster: Thomas <tom-at-pwrcom-dot-com.au>
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 > This sphere will sit on top of the already existing 125mm x 375mm (~5" x
 > ~15") toroid.
 > Is it likely that I will still only get streamers from the toroid (as the
 > radius of curvature is smaller than the sphere and hence e field strength
 > larger)?
 > Tom L.