RE: [TCML] Torroid/Shorted Turn?

[TheBypasser <bypasser@xxxxxxx>]

Hi! I had an alike thought as even on the early versions of my sstc  
shooting only 30cm those days I had a toroid heating issue. As I always  
used airhose toroids, that was definitely nothing to do with toroid  
magnetizing effect (just to make sure the steel toroid made from a corona  
ring would not fit a lower frequency Tesla coil I tried it once, and the  
heating was times higher as the spark length got lower, by the way the  
effect gets less noticable on higher frequencies, but that is off-topic).  
So, I decided to try out two different techniques - a split toroid and a  
toroid placed a bit above the secondary. The second variant felt too bad -  
the top turn was making sparks on it's own, so on the new version of that  
coil that would definitely burn the top turn as the terminal gets very  
hot. The first variant however had some results, but pretty strange indeed  
- I got no noticable spark growth compared to a solid toroid, but the  
toroid heat got reduced a bit. As that is an SSTC, the coupling is pretty  
high however, so you'll probably not notice alike effects on a sparkgap  
coil or a drsstc. However - the present version of that coil (you can see  
it here, but I made no pictures with the new terminal yet:  
http://s8.photobucket.com/albums/a44/TheBypasser/OLSSTC/) still has some  
slight toroid heating. As the toroid is split and the terminal is sharp I  
guess the reason are some looped currents still present there, however I  
doubt that this small power leakage is worth any further toroid research.
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