Re: Q's ? Q's ? Q's ?

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Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>

Hi,

At 03:05 AM 4/6/2001 +0100, you wrote:
snip...
>
>If you can find source code in Fortran77 or C, you can recompile it
>under the GNU compiler g77 or gcc (now I think egcs) which is a
>standard part of Linux, so it will run under Linux. It shouldn't
>matter if the original program was written for Windows/DOS so long as
>it doesn't use the Windows environment, which rules out a few
>excellent programs but then their source code isn't available anyway.
>I've used g77 successfully but not directly gcc (actually, g77 calls
>gcc) so it can't be that hard ;-)
>
>I don't know if Terry's ETesla source is available?  There are also
>some Java programs out there and Java is platform-independent, so will
>run on a Linux box (so they tell me but don't ask how, the only Java I
>know is the stuff you drink).
>

E-Tesla6 is free and public domain.  The source code is made simple so it
"should" compile under any C compiler (I use the free LCC).  The source is
in the original zip file as "E-Tesla611.C" it is text based so it should
run fine:

http://hot-streamer-dot-com/TeslaCoils/Programs/E-Tesla6.zip

The program finds the resonant frequency of a coil.  However, I think the
person was looking for a more basic functional coiling program rather than
the Fo specific E-Tesla6.  All the equations the other programs are based
on are at:

http://home.earthlink-dot-net/~electronxlc/

So it is just a mater of programming them into a simple program for Linux.
Of course, you can always do it with a calculator, or even by hand ;-))  I
find that I still do the resonant and most other tasks with a calculator
but I have the equations memorized it this point so it is second nature...
There are a few Web TC calculators too but I can't find the URL just now.

Cheers,

	Terry