Re: Trial and error

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Original poster: "Steven Steele" <sbsteele@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Has anyone ever told you, you have too much time on your hands?
I get it all the time.
   I suck at designing stuff. Whenever I actually draw the stuff I'm 
building, It's just a waste of time and effort.
Nothing ever turns out how I designed it. I always end up improvising. It's 
fun to improvise. And you know what they say, Ignorance is bliss! :)
I'll make you a deal. If you make a TC whithout calculting first, I'll make 
one after doing the calculations first. I'll even count the number of turns 
on my secondary.
Or, maybe not. I don't know if I have enough time or money to do that. I've 
been working on it all semester, and it's expensive. The wire for the 
secondary alone cost me $25, The caps $54, and with the number of times 
I've redone the primary, I don't know how much that's cost, but it's cost 
alot.Although, my NST only cost $10. :)


                                                   Steven Steele
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Subject: Re: Trial and error


> Original poster: "Malcolm Watts" <m.j.watts@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> On 3 Apr 2005, at 12:31, Tesla list wrote:
>
> > Original poster: "Steven Steele" <sbsteele@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Have any of you guys ever just built a good TC by trial and error? Or
> > do ya'll always do quantom physics calculations first? LOL.
> >                                    Steven Steele
>
> My best coil was designed on the back of an envelope (literally!)
> over a cup of tea during a 20 minute tea break. I resonated at
> exactly the frequency it was designed to do so and, most crushing of
> all for the relativistic afficionados, was designed using simple
> lumped parameters. I did make room for consideration of losses due to
> skin/proximity effects but a decision to spacewind with a 1:1
> wire/space ratio plus a suitable wiresize for its (lowest) frequency
> of operation based on a simple guideline kept the quantum genie
> firmly corked up in its bottle.
>
> Malcolm