Colin wrote: > Could you please describe, "long single layer" ? > What is the shape of the cap? > If we were to slice it, would we be cutting a "C"-shaped section from the > toroid or is the toroid closed, like a pipe?
The idea is to separate the charges by a distance greater than the thickness of the toroid. Imagine a rod of high K material with metal electrodes at both ends. The toroid is complete and wound with a coil in the normal transformer manner. The center of the rod capacitor is aligned with a line through the center of the toroid. The capacitor rotates so that + and - ends switch positions to alternate sides of the loop formed by the toroid. The result should excite the toroid with a charge motion equivalent to an excitation winding driven by ac current. We should get a transformer with electrical output and mechanical input. The efficiency should be quite high but the magnetics portion would still have some losses. George
