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madhatter106
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OK, I was thinking about transformers and mutual induction and then drifted onto displacement current. I then decided to build a simple test apparatus and test for the magnetic field between two parallel plates. using a variety of coil designs to have as much of the windings perpendicular to the expected field I stumbled into an interesting problem.
Now I'll describe the arrangement so that a mental image may be formed,
two copper plates 3" dia 12ga thickness. a flat spiral coil, a flat biflilar coil, and a torus coil wound on a .05" thick plastic disk 2.75" dia with a .5" dia hole. all coils are 22ga ptfe insulated copper wire.
the flat bifilar coil and spiral coil would have there turns nearly parallel to the magnetic field and should have the least measured inductance.
what I found was that the rectified voltage from the spiral coil and bifilar coil was in increase in voltage greater than the torus coil. I've exhausted all the equations I can find on displacement current and can not resolve the measured voltages.
So my question is, if the displacement current between two parallel plates is a magnetic field then how does a coil with it's windings in parallel to the field become induced? In the examples I've looked into in regards to this, the parallel plates are always fed with the wires at the center and perpendicular to them, this introduces the possibility of an expanded magnetic field coupling between the plates and the wires. In the arrangement I built the wires feed from the edge and in plane with the plates, there is no center out "field".
here's the worksheets as I've been working on this trying to resolve the discrepancy.
Now I'll describe the arrangement so that a mental image may be formed,
two copper plates 3" dia 12ga thickness. a flat spiral coil, a flat biflilar coil, and a torus coil wound on a .05" thick plastic disk 2.75" dia with a .5" dia hole. all coils are 22ga ptfe insulated copper wire.
the flat bifilar coil and spiral coil would have there turns nearly parallel to the magnetic field and should have the least measured inductance.
what I found was that the rectified voltage from the spiral coil and bifilar coil was in increase in voltage greater than the torus coil. I've exhausted all the equations I can find on displacement current and can not resolve the measured voltages.
So my question is, if the displacement current between two parallel plates is a magnetic field then how does a coil with it's windings in parallel to the field become induced? In the examples I've looked into in regards to this, the parallel plates are always fed with the wires at the center and perpendicular to them, this introduces the possibility of an expanded magnetic field coupling between the plates and the wires. In the arrangement I built the wires feed from the edge and in plane with the plates, there is no center out "field".
here's the worksheets as I've been working on this trying to resolve the discrepancy.