Simulation of a conventional Tesla coil

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Original poster: "K. C. Herrick by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <kchdlh-at-juno-dot-com>

Still playing with Newbury Tech's SIMetrix, and pleased with my notion
for using their "transformer" backward, I've come up with
http://hot-streamer-dot-com/temp/conv-tc.sxsch,
http://hot-streamer-dot-com/temp/conv-tc.sxsch.pdf and
http://hot-streamer-dot-com/temp/conv-tc-grph.pdf.  Newbies & others alike
might want to go to www.newburytech-dot-com and download a free version of
SIMetrix.  You can then put the .sxsch file into its Work folder, run it,
and play with it yourselves.  Generate 500,000 volts with the click of a
mouse-button!

If you have the cash, buy SIMetrix; I believe it's about $1000.  If I
were gainfully using it, I would.

You can view the schematic and the first few cycles of primary current
and output voltage from the pdf files using Acrobat.

This may be old-hat to spark-gap regulars but since I've been
(masochistically) into solid-state, I've perhaps missed it.

SIMetrix is so much easier to fathom than MicroSim's kludge that I can't
believe it.  It also now incorporates another simulation program
(licensed from someone else) which I haven't tried out.

Ken Herrick