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Re: A Vote for a Common Language.(Schematics) To: Gary Lau and all
>Original Poster: Steven Ivy <adder_black_the-at-yahoo-dot-com>
>
>I think it would be very useful and informative if a lot of the people
>on this list were to start using the same schematics entry and circuit
>simulator tools so we could exchange files and get peer review and
>approval of our Tesla coil ideas. I know that many of us, myself
>included, have been sent "out in the weeds" by foolish assumptions
>make about the written circuit descriptions we read about on this list.
>My vote goes to Microsim's P-Spice since a free "only slightly
>crippled" version is available all over the web and many people are
Hi Steve:
I don't know if simulators other than MicroSim PSpice use file formats
incompatable with the .SCH files, as I'm only familiar with MicroSim.
But I believe that a human-readable schematic is the most versatile and
universal format, saved in a .GIF file (smaller than .JPG). For the
schematic of my coil on my web page, I created it just using MS Paint,
editing a bitmap created by pasting from MicroSim, and converting the
bitmap to .GIF in PhotoShop. Since the models we're talking about only
have a dozen or so components, I see no problem in recording them as
such.
>Hey Gary Lau:
>I am interested in seeing that P-spice Tesla coil file you made so I
>can run it and see if it can help me iron out a few of my own wrinkles.
I think you may have confused me with Terry. I've only modeled portions
of the whole coil, mostly primary parasitics and protection filters.
Terry's post yesterday gave a pointer to his whole-coil model.
Regards, Gary Lau
Waltham, MA USA