RE: Modeling E-Fields of Tesla Coil - Building a model

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Original poster: Marco.Denicolai-at-tellabs-dot-com 

Hi Jim,

My experience is limited to the student edition (2D) of it. It crashed
quite often. I have no reason to doubt its calculations but the result
is the same. Hardly usable. The commercial version might well work fine
but I thought Dan meant the free version.

Best Regards

 > -----Original Message-----
 > From: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com [mailto:tesla-at-pupman-dot-com]
 > Sent: 5. kesäkuuta 2004 03:29
 > To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
 > Subject: RE: Modeling E-Fields of Tesla Coil - Building a model
 >
 >
 > Original poster: Jim Lux <jimlux-at-earthlink-dot-net>
 >
 > At 08:16 AM 6/4/2004 -0600, you wrote:
 > >Original poster: Marco.Denicolai-at-tellabs-dot-com
 > >Hi Dan,
 > >
 > >Maxwell is buggy and falls often. I moved to Bela which
 > COULD be freely
 > >dowloaded from:
 > >
 > >http://users.rcn-dot-com/dmeeker/
 > >
 > >Now it looks like only FEMM is available. I didn't try that, I don't
 > >know if it's only a superset of Bela. Anyway if you want to try Bela
 > >then let me know and I'll email you its install package (1.2 MB).
 > >
 > >Best Regards
 >
 > Buggy? how? What parts don't work right? Is the the
 > underlying FEM codes,
 > or the interfaces, or what?   Since ANSOFT products aren't
 > cheap, and we
 > were thinking about using it here, this is of great interest.
 >
 >
 >