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Re: Tesla coil voltage and electric field simulation in DOS



Tesla List wrote:
> 
> Subscriber: harris-at-parkave-dot-net Sun Jan 12 21:46:12 1997
> Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 21:58:32 -0400
> From: Ed Harris <harris-at-parkave-dot-net>
> To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> Subject: Tesla coil voltage and electric field simulation in DOS
> 
> All,
> 
> Here is a simulation program which solves laplace's equation in
> cylicrical cooridnates to show approximately what the voltage and
> electric fields look like around a tesla coil. I sent this out before,
> but some of the new people might like to play with it.
> 
> Torroids and shperes or no terminal can be chosen and the
> dimensions of the torroids and sphere can be changed on the fly
> while the program is running. There are also keys to toggle
> between display of the electric field magnitude and the voltage
> map. The map is displayed as a cross section through the
> center of the coil.
> 
>  I'm sending the compiled and
>  optimized version for DOS if you can run that.
> 
>  have fun,
>  -Ed Harris

Ed,

Thanks - this is a very nice visualization tool!! The E-Field map for a
large toroid very clearly shows the shielding impact.

-- Bert --