RE: E-Tesla 6.11 strange prediction

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Original poster: "Ray Haynes by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <ray.haynes-at-home-dot-com>

What program was used to generate MattD2.gif?

Ray

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> Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 4:12 PM
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> Subject: RE: E-Tesla 6.11 strange prediction
>
>
> Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>
>
> Hi John,
>
> Yeah!  When I ran Matt's coil at 400 x 400 it only took 100+ billion
> floating point calculations to figure out :-)))  Also see the field stress
> plot (volts per inch) I did later:
>
> http://hot-streamer-dot-com/temp/MattD2.gif
>
> This clearly shows the electrically dead space between the toroids as well
> as the high field stress areas where the streamers break out
> from.  So far,
> E-Tesla6 has always worked extremely well.  There is a small discontinuity
> that has about 4% error that was mentioned the other day but I
> think I know
> what that is...
>
> It is gratifying to know it works so well after all the days, and nights,
> spent on it.  When it was a slow basic program, I set my alarm every two
> and a half hours during the night so I could wake up and load a new set of
> test data on all the computers in the house...  I still am stunned on how
> fast the C programming helpers were able to get it to go now!!  A full
> night's worth of testing can be done in minutes now...
>
> I should point out that Paul's new computer tools exceed E-Tesla by orders
> of magnitude!  We just have to wait a bit longer before all that high
> powered math stuff gets down to the rest of us. 0:o))  Tesla coils used to
> be such a big mystery not too long ago, but now they are quickly becoming
> some of the most well understood machines around!  But still much to do...
>
> Cheers,
>
> 	Terry
>