RE: Secondary size

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Original poster: Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-twfpowerelectronics-dot-com>

Hi Luke,

I always blame John Couture for all that "empirical 
stuff"!!  :o)))  Goodness know he has done more "seat of the pants testing" 
than anybody!!  But here is a 30 day Beowulf computer cluster simulation of 
13500 coil configurations:

http://www.abelian.demon.co.uk/tssp/vsd/

But fact is, there is not a lot of highly precise science behind much of 
what we do.  Tesla coils are a "gnarly" science at best.  Papers like:

http://hot-streamer-dot-com/TeslaCoils/MyPapers/modact/modact.html

http://hot-streamer-dot-com/temp/pn2511.pdf

http://hot-streamer-dot-com/temp/pn1401.pdf

Antonio, Bart, and Paul have pushed a lot of brand new computer programs too!!!

There are precise methods out there, but they leave the best of us gasping 
for brains...  Lots of myths and legends out there too that are bogus...

http://www.ttr-dot-com/corum/index.htm

Hehehehe  Long time since I "took a shot" ;o)))

But really, in the end, we "can" calculate things to death...  But, it is 
just easier to do what others tell us from their experience.  We can in 
many cases tell you what a coil "should be" after literally hundreds of 
hours of work...  Then there is that guy that tells you "hey dude, make it 
like this and it will work fine"...  It really depends on how you want to 
pursue this odd hobby ;-))

I take you like the rock solid background stuff ;-))  We got a lot of that 
still left to go ;-))  But we will run out probably sooner than you wish, 
so you may have to go it alone to find the new answers and "tell us" what 
you discover ;-)))

If you like to read:

http://hot-streamer-dot-com/TeslaCoils/OtherPapers/

I lost track of how many gig hot-streamer has on-line now, but I try to 
grab everything ;-))  You are learning at an astounding rate so 
far!!!  Don't forget the google style archive search at:

http://www.pupman-dot-com/htsearch.html

It can keyword search almost ten years of our babblings!!!   The webring 
has a ton of info too:

http://j.webring-dot-com/hub?ring=teslaring

In a few weeks, you will probably know more than any of us ;-))

Cheers,

         Terry



At 09:44 PM 1/16/2004, you wrote:
>Thanx for the insight.  I am beginning to gather the empirical nature of
>it.  But it seems if I keep hammering why there sometimes pop up why
>this empirical rule was set.  So even though it is empirical someone
>finally jumps up and explains where it came from.
>
>You know like old sayings that you say all the time and you know what is
>meant by them you have no idea where they came from.  And if you look at
>the words literally it makes no sense.  Sometimes you hear where these
>saying originated.  So when I keep hammering why sometimes I get answers
>that may not be solid but you know why they are there and that is good.
>
>Luke Galyan
>Bluu-at-cox-dot-net