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Re: Tesla Software



Hi, Jeff

>You'll want to include the capabitity of all three types of primary coil
topologies: 
>flat, inverted cone and vertical helix. Also some people use tubing some
people use 
>ribbon (I'm VERY partial to copper ribbon as a primary coil conductor).

I have never used ribbon, although I hear it is good. Do you use the same
formulae for this as you would for tubing or wire?

>IMO, the best tesla software to date is teslac. Like most efforts, however,
it's 
>clunky and restrictive. You should think about a function that would allow
users to 
>access and edit the formulas used in the program. The resulting "formula
profile" 
>would be saved/read by the program as a text data file that users could
trade (i.e. 
>I'd die for the Hull data file). That way what you build could be more
things to 
>more people. Concentrate on interface, make it professional and slick and
build 
>FLEXABILITY into your code.

I am trying to make it as flexible as possible, so people can approach it
from different angles. As far as the "profiles" go, I am building something
like that into it whereby people can print it or pass it around as a data
file. It seems that teslaholics need something like this to exchange
information quickly and easily.

>Why don't you pass along your feature/function list as it stands and we'll
help you 
>organize it.

Better still. I am trying hard to get a beta copy done so that everyone can
take a look at it and debug, critisize, comment etc. Just have a few more
problems to resolve and it should be taking shape.

Thanks for the suggestions,
Graham