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Re: More arc simulations

Hi Mark,

At 07:14 AM 10/15/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Hello All:
>Terry said in part:
><snip> 
>        I calculated your coil resistance some time ago and came up with 227
>ohms, with DC resistance, skin effects and proximity effects taken into
>account.  The calculation does not take into account dielectric losses and
>radiative losses.  I think your 270 ohm value is VERY realistic for this
>coil system.
>Regards,
>Mark S. Rzeszotarski, Ph.D.
>
>

The skin effects of 3500 feet of 22 guage wire didn't seem to have much
effect (about 6 ohms).  So I set the coil's resistance to 70 ohms and added
a 14 mega ohm resistor from the toroid to ground to have the same loss
effects.  I thought this was more realistic of a real coil.  The effects on
the model are the same as the original 270 ohm resistance.  Perhaps I need
to measure the AC resistance of my coil at 111kHz to be sure 70 ohms is a
good value of resistance for my coil?  I may have miss-calculated?  I
figured that the 14 M ohms would represent corona and dissipation losses in
the secondary capacitance more realistically.  Of course, the model's
calculations are the same either way.

	Terry