From: Paul
Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 20:48:12 +0100
Subject: Re: [TSSP] Toroid field stress
Terrell W. Fritz wrote: > I set it up and ran it and got 9200 Volts/cm with 400kV on the > toroid. Yes, I guess the increase in chord diameter is reflected in the reduced stress. > That is a little short of the 26kV/cm we were looking for. Needs over 1.1MV to breakout, which is obviously wrong. > I have not used the stress stuff much but I think it works properly. I think so too - the caps come out right, so the field can't be out by a factor of nearly 3. >... Or the grid is too choppy to show the actual tiny stresses at the > surface. Maybe. Wonder how smooth http://www.saunalahti.fi/dncmrc/th-hut3.jpg actually is? Would only take one irregularity, an edge somewhere. Guess we'll have to look at a few more coils, see if a pattern emerges. Cheers, -- Paul Nicholson, Manchester, UK. --
Maintainer Paul Nicholson, paul@abelian.demon.co.uk.