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Re: Optimal Quenching Tests
Eds,
On my ftp site: ftp.bdt-dot-com/home/jim.fosse I have 3 jpeg
images that show the beating effect between primary and secondary.
While this simulation was not run to show this effect, it does.
jim
Current directory is /home/jim.fosse
ring.jpg 101 Kb Fri Oct 04 21:01:00 1996 JPEG Image
ring_e.jpg 97 Kb Fri Oct 04 21:02:00 1996 JPEG Image
ring_sch.jpg 49 Kb Fri Oct 04 21:02:00 1996 JPEG Image
On Sat, 11 Jan 1997 21:25:08 -0700, Tesla List
<tesla-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com>, you wrote:
>Subscriber: ed-at-alumni.caltech.edu Sat Jan 11 20:44:51 1997
>Date: Sat, 11 Jan 1997 19:41:54 -0800 (PST)
>From: "Edward V. Phillips" <ed-at-alumni.caltech.edu>
>To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
>Subject: Re: Optimal Quenching Tests
>
>"2) Did the old spark transmitter engineers really say that 1st notch quench
>eliminated splitting, or did they say it eliminated beating? Maybe they just
>looked at their secondary waveform and said, " look, a nice clean
>ringdown....no beats....just what we want!" Also, in Richard Hull's
>comments on the subject, was he refering to splitting, or to beating? Are
>we differing on our definitions of terms?
>"
> They were talking about eliminating "double waves", which really
>meant the beating you are referring to. Over-coupled circuits all have
>two resonant frequenciew, which move apart as the coupling increases.
>When the coupling equals one one resonance is at zero frequency and one
>at infinity. By quenching at the first "notch", only a single wave
>was radiated.
> All this shows up very simply in SPICE simulations. Perhaps
>someone will post some pictures showing the effect. Have used
>Electronic Work Bench, a SPICE-based design tool, to run a bunch of
>experiments which produce results exactly equivalent to what simple
>transient analysis shows. Unfortunately, don't have any way to
>export those pictures in a usable form.
>Ed Phillips
>