Re: PIRANHA - New Top Load Configuration

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Original poster: "Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz" <acmdq@xxxxxxxxxx>

Tesla list wrote:
> Original poster: Vardan <vardan01@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> I am not sure what the capacitance of the new terminal will be, but 
> from the field plots it will be pretty close to a 8 x 24 toroid.  I 
> have plenty of tuning range so not problem at all there.

Humm. The capacitance of four balls can be calculated, I think. But a
toroid approximation is probably good enough. I liked the idea.

> The pictures where done with the ancient open source freebee 
> PovRay.  It runs much faster on a 3GHz computer than a 12MHz 286 :o))
> http://www.povray.org/
> You probably want to get a GUI plugin for it like Moray:
> http://www.stmuc.com/moray/

I use Pov-Ray too for my drawings and designs:

http://www.coe.ufrj.br/~acmq/wehrsenm.jpg

> But that has a 30 day trial and then it is expensive.  But for a 
> quick thing like this were I needed to get a good picture it is just fine ;-)
> I could pretty much figure it out in an hour and use it:
> http://drsstc.com/~piranha/PIRANHA/PIRANHA-2/newcoil-02.png
> I had trouble finding a secondary coil and ground material...  I 
> also have 'two' Suns ;-)
> Some people are waaayyy too good at it:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Glasses_800_edit.png

Glass takes forever to render. Try sparks. There is a program somewhere that
create Pov-Ray code for sparks.

Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz