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Re: MMC Calculator Program
Hi to all,
where can I find calculation programs for Apple Macintosh users?????
Stefan Richter, Germany
Tesla List wrote:
> Original Poster: Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>
>
> Hi All,
>
> I wrote up a little program that will do all those nasty MMC
calculations.
> It is at:
>
> http://www.peakpeak-dot-com/~terryf/tesla/misc/MMCCALC1.ZIP
>
> It is a version 1.0 in QBASIC but it basically does the job. A sample
> output is:
>
> ---------------------------
> MMC Calculator Ver. 1.0 2/15/2000 Terry Fritz
> Firing voltage = 12100
> Fo = 145000
> Break rate = 120
> Cap value = 5.6E-08
>
> Strings Caps/String Total Value Temperature Cost
> 3 7 24.00 11.41 30.45 Some Risk
> 4 9 24.89 7.31 52.20 Safe
> 5 12 23.33 4.56 87.00 Very Safe
> 6 14 24.00 3.63 121.80 Very Safe
> 7 16 24.50 3.02 162.40 Very Safe
> 7 17 23.06 2.79 172.55 Very Safe
> 8 18 24.89 2.60 208.80 Very Safe
> 8 19 23.58 2.44 220.40 Very Safe
> -----------------------
>
> It can be easily modified, copied, stolen, etc. as you please...
>
> It does not do voltage but if you stay under 2000 volts per cap your ok.
>
> It is sort of geared to my Panasonic caps but if you change the heat
> dissipation constant in line 1260, it should basically work for any. It is
> based of the calculations at:
>
> http://www.peakpeak-dot-com/~terryf/tesla/misc/MMCPower4.html
>
> Most things are worst case but the numbers seem to work fine. Hopefully
> this will make MMC design much easier especially for the critical
> temperature rise aspect.
>
> Comment suggestions welcome. I am no computer programmer but the basics of
> how the program works should be easy to see.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Terry
>
> BTW - Thanks for all the great interest in my latest batch of Panasonic
> caps! Looks like I won't be stuck with $1400 worth of them for very long
> ;-)) Hope I don't need another thousand...
>
> BBTW - Reinhard, I just drew a straight line for the dissipation function.
> Seemed to be close enough...