Re: Design tool: TC-plan V 1.0

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

Hi All,

I have seen Kurt's program and it is a definite super cool thing! :-))  A
must have for serious TC design work!

Cheers,

	Terry



At 08:46 PM 4/17/2001 +0200, you wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>my Excel TC design tool has been further developped, and is now in a
>state, to be presented to you. The idea was to generate a Tesla-coil
>design platform, where different relevant tools can be plugged-in.
>Insofar it goes a step further, than other currently available TC-design
>programs. In addition to the usual sequence of design formulas, as
>given, i.e. at http://home.earthlink-dot-net/~electronxlc/ I've included the
>following topics:
>
>- Sparklength formulas for efficient TC's by John Freau
>- E-field and secondary C calculation by Terry's E-Tesla6
>- Mutual inductance and coupling factor by Paul Nicholson's ACMI
>- Skineffect 
>- Proximity effect
>- My Excel-form of Terry's MMC calculator
>- Different other capacitor calculations (with dielectrics table).
>- Several informative sheets (i.e. sparkgap tables, TC-loss posting..)
>
>The main results are summarized in a TC circuit-sketch sheet. The needed
>modules, including the executables of E-Tesla6 and ACMI, and some
>example inputs are zipped into a single file. The whole zip-file is
>about 200kB, and can be downloaded under:
>
>http://home.datacomm.ch/k.schraner/TCplan.zip
>
>
>Most of the contents in the spreadsheet stems from other peoples
>developments or general knowledge: My special thanks go to John Freau,
>Terry Fritz, Jochen Kronjaeger, Jim Lux, Paul Nicholson, Mark S.
>Rzeszotarski, Ed Sonderman, Malcolm Watts - from whose this excel-sheet
>includes TCML postings or access to their programs.
>
>Apart from the pure executables of E-Tesla and ACMI in TCplan.zip, I
>strongly recommend downloading the full packages of the programs,
>including documentation and source code from
>
>http://hot-streamer-dot-com/TeslaCoils/Programs/Programs.htm for E-Tesla
>http://www.abelian.demon.co.uk/acmi/                     for
>ACMI            
>
>so that you can keep your copy of E-Tesla and ACMI up to date, and
>inform yourself about these nice programs. A warning however: be careful
>in using potential newer versions with TC-plan.xls: the I/O transfer
>between the spreadsheet and the 2 programs is based on the current forms
>of input/output.
>
>Using multi-worksheet excel workbooks is my preferred method of
>designing TC's. My own spreadsheets follow the
>development of each coil-project, and are getting individualized on that
>way, when experimental data become available. I hope, TC-plan will be
>useful to some of you!
>
>Cheers
>        Kurt Schraner
>