Re: Re: [TCML] Tesla's topload

[DC Cox <resonance@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It's very common in use on large Marx impulse generators --- like the huge
one at hydro-Quebec in Canada or Hipotronics units 2 M.

The use is caused by the huge cost and impracticality of spinning huge
toroids --- like the Wardenclyffe one.  Smaller integral units are the only
practical way to go.

D.C. Cox




On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz <
acmdq@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 16:59, jhowson4@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
>> Well Steve, experimental evidence and experience always supersedes theory.
>> Being an individual who wants to go into the field of high voltage research
>> upon graduation, I am going to have to play with that software you have. =)
>>
>> So I guess the real question is, where is the charge going? Since it does
>> not seem logical that a 50% decrease in surface area would yield only a 10%
>> -15% decrease in capacitance. So something else must be going on here.
>>
>> I suppose that the most logical explanation would be that charge is
>> actually being stored on the interior of the structure for these open
>> geometry designs. Maybe due to the incompleteness of the conductor Faraday's
>> law does not apply with the same rigor as it would in a solid sphere model.
>>
> Charges in the interior of the structure are insignificant. Practically all
> of it is just more concentrated on the exterior than it would be in a solid
> surface, what leads to smaller breakout voltage too.
> Observe this simulation of the electric field around the wires of a
> segmented toroid charged to 1 V. There is practically no field inside, and
> no charge, and even the field on the wires at the inner part of the toroid
> (right) is small.
> http://www.coe.ufrj.br/~acmq/tesla/partialtoroid.gif
>
> Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz
>
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