ScanTesla - Prime Time Version - bugs fixed.

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Original poster: Terry Fritz <teslalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Hi All,

I fixed a significant I/O bug.  I use all double precision variables, so 
all the %e, %f, %d were changed to %le, %lf, %ld.  Now the program reads in 
and outputs the variables correctly.  I also removed <conio.h>.  There are 
no known bugs at this point.

The new and improved version is here:

http://drsstc.com/~terrell/modeling/ScanTesla510.zip

Any comments, suggestions, improvements can be sent directly to me here at:

teslalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Cheers,

        Terry


> Hi All,
>
> I think I have a version of ScanTesla ready for the masses ;-))
>
> http://drsstc.com/~terrell/modeling/ScanTesla500.zip
>
> The parameters are input by the simple text file "input.txt".
> It can do a DRSSTC or conventional coil.
> It can find the maximum streamer energy or the maximum top voltage.
> It reads out as it goes and stores everything to the file "output.txt" too.
> It seems to all work fine ;-))
>
> The C program is included and perhaps sort of understandable...
> It was made and compiles under LCC (free windows C compiler), but now you 
> should not have to change the program itself to run it.  You only need a C 
> compiler if you want to go changing the program itself.
>
> http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~lcc-win32/
>
> The input.txt file is now set to scan Lprimary from 10 to 100uH in steps 
> of 0.5uH and scan Lsecondary from 20 to 200mH.
> It is set for a conventional coil with 20000 volts on the primary cap.
> It is searching for the combination that gives the maximum top toroid voltage.
>
> In general, the search parameters are start value, stop value, and 
> increment value.  If the start and stop parameters are the same, it is a 
> fixed value.
>
> C1 3.749998e-008 3.749998e-008 9.999994e-010    Cpri scan parameters
> R1 2.000000e+000 2.000000e+000 1.000000e-002    Rpri scan parameters
> L1 9.999998e-006 9.999996e-005 4.999998e-007    Lpri scan parameters
> L2 0.200000e-001 0.200000e+000 0.500000e-002    Lsec scan parameters
> K12 1.500000e-001 1.500000e-001 1.000000e-002   Coupling scan parameters
> R2 3.000001e+002 3.000001e+002 1.000000e+000    Rsec scan parameters
> C2 2.499999e-011 2.499999e-011 4.999998e-012    Csec scan parameters
> C3 0.300000e-011 0.300000e-011 9.999997e-013    Cload scan parameters
> R3 2.200000e+005 2.200000e+005 1.000000e+003    Rload scan parameters
> T1 0.000000e+000 9.999994e-004 1.490693e-314    Model run time scan 
> parameters (I see a bug in T1_inc (printing..) ;-))
> Vrail 0.000000e+000                                     Rail voltage for 
> DRSSTC.  Set to 0 for conventional coil
> VCpri_init 2.000000e+004                                Cpri initial 
> voltage.  Set to 0 for DRSSTC
> DwellTime 1.999999e-004                                 DRSSTC dwell time
> Current_Limit 5.000001e+004                             DRSSTC primary 
> current limit
> Goal Type 0                                             0 = find highest 
> Vtop  1 = find highest streamer energy
>
> You can change the input.txt file to do anything.  There is no error 
> checking so garbage in, garbage out ;-))
>
> Cheers,
>
>         Terry