Re: [TCML] New Double Toroid idea works!

["Peter Terren" <pterren@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I seem to recall Antionio saying that a perfectly smooth rod extended 
indefinitely has an indefinitely high breakout voltage. It sort of made 
sense and explained why magnifiers only needed a 2 inch pipe to connect 
hundreds of kV between secondary and tertiary coils.  Here is a picture of 
one of my coils with a rod of 1/2 inch and breakout along it.
http://tesladownunder.iinet.net.au/Saurons%20Aura%20SetupTesting.jpg
In the real world there are many things that will make a rod not perfect, 
like surface roughness, end terminations, mild curvature and cosmic rays.
Peter

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "bartb" <bartb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Tesla Coil Mailing List" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>


> Hi Phil,
>
> Very cool! I am no doubt surprised regarding the toroid interconnect. I 
> wasn't originally thinking of a 4" transmission line, but rather a rod of 
> sorts. Regardless, I still would have figured the smaller radius would 
> have promoted some problems, but apparently that's not the case. I wonder 
> if each toroid was adding some shielding to the transmission line? ....
>
> Excellent experiment! I'm really glad you tried it. Opinions and theory 
> are guides, but only experiments can prove or disprove an idea.
>
> Great job!
> Bart
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