Original poster: dest <dest@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Hallo Gary,
Original poster: "Lau, Gary" <Gary.Lau@xxxxxx>
Hi Dest:
That's one damn fine looking toroid! I applaud your use of correctly
shaped pre-cut "lunes" of fiberglass mat. How did you plot the exact
shape & size? Well done!
thanx.
i don`t know if all this is well defined and described somewhere
(probably it is, as always), but as with fiberglass plastic i decided
to do it by myself from ground zero, so i just "invented" all
necessary formulas. that was somewhere at the end of 2005, so when i
looked at those scetches today i even can`t understand what is "z",
"alpha" and so on, sorry : ))) but i found that old mathcad file:
http://himplast.ru/dest/tesla/toroid/tor33.PNG
http://himplast.ru/dest/tesla/toroid/tor.mcd
then i remembered, that "R" and "r" it`s a major & minor radiuses in
cm, and "16" it`s just the number of "lunes" in single layer. so my
toroid is not 10" by 40", but 8" by 40" instead - sorry again : )))
btw - you don`t really need _exact_ shape or size, coz as i found in
the process, impregnated mat tend to stretch, at least along its
length. but maybe i`ll need such data when i begin covering the thing
with alu foil, who knows.
While it's clear that it's possible to build a first rate DIY
fiberglass toroid, it still looks like more effort than many would
care to bite off.
you are right - probably such tor like yours is all that Terry or any
other normal person need, coz no normal person would kick or throw
his top load : ) and with careful handling it would last probably
sufficiently long. tho it is a bit pricey for a "medium" size?
I wanted to mention one further possibility (yeah - a dime a
dozen) for a pre-made toroid.
I've noticed on several occasions in shopping malls, large fiberglass
planters
heck, i was always wondering how much differ level of technological
progress here vs usa - those endless *marts, digikeys, mac master
carrs and so on - you have so many ways and possibilities to do the
same thing % )))
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Let the bass kick! =:-D