RE: streamer output - toroids vs. spheres

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Original poster: "david baehr" <dfb25@xxxxxxxxxxx>


try the best of both worlds,..multipal   spheres !!!

  42" with a 3" coil !! Wow, thats GREAT !!!


From:  "Tesla list" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
To:  tesla@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject:  streamer output - toroids vs. spheres
Date:  Thu, 19 Apr 2007 20:57:58 -0600
>Original poster: mileswaldron@xxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
>It seems that everyone is using toroids as toploads these days. I
>admit tuning a coil with a toroid is much easier than tuning a coil
>with a sphere; however, there is one remarcable difference in
>streamer output that I have noticed. This type of streamer output is
>so *AMAZING* that I don't like toroids, and prefer spheres.
>
>What I see happen with a tuned in sphere, with careful and painful
>adjustments, is that I can get exactly 1 streamer rolling around the
>top of the ball. The streamer will eventually settle itself down on
>the top of the ball and start "reaching" upwards. The end of the
>streamer licks and curls around in a shape that I cannot describe,
>going inside itself in fractal looking loops. It will stand there
>doing this for quite some time. It is a beautiful site to see. My 3"
>diameter coil can project a 42" streamer upwards using a single
>12-60 NST.
>
>This is a simple observation about topload shape that I hope will
>foster some interesting commentary.
>
>Miles
>
>



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