Re: topload questions

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Original poster: "S & J Young by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <youngs-at-konnections-dot-net>


Adam,

The chicken wire acts as though it is a solid toroid because the high
voltage ionizes the air close to it, and ionized air is a fairly good
conductor and makes a fairly decent capacitor plate.  The conducting parts
of the room the TC is in, and/or the ground beneath it, act as the other
capacitor plate.

--Steve
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 >
 > Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<Beans45601-at-aol-dot-com>
 >
 > I was looking around at some of the really big coils and i noticed that
for
 > their top loads, they were just using chicken wire on the outside of a
 > wooden frame. since the chicken wire is mostly holes, woulden't a big
peice
 > of chicken wire have the same capicatance as a smallish top toroid? My
 > thinking is that the capicatance is caculated by the surface area, and it
 > seems to me that they would need to have a HUGE top load (made of chicken
 > wire) to equal that of a small "regular" top load. <SNIP>