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Re: Energy Equations For LC Standing Wave Resonance

Original poster: "Barton B. Anderson" <bartb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Hi Jared,

I've been meaning to ask for some time and was kind of "waiting for the right moment".

Have you thought about porting your equations to a program? Obviously, all program have an output purpose. As the designer, you can determine what that purpose is (i.e., no restraints). I see it as typical engineering procedure to develop a program solely for the purpose of prediction. Thus, your program would predict various outputs, where the rest of us could do the laymen's task of verification against the model.

Paul has done this with all his programs to the Nth degree. JAVATC, JHCTES, ETESLA6, and all the other great programs we all use works well "because" they were tested with "real coils" by "various real people" around the globe.

Some on the TCML may not realize all the work that goes into a program. Believe me, it's just not one guys idea of "here are the equations for everything you ever wanted to know about Tesla Coils". There is a lot of "off-line" emails, testing, verification, arguments, and a "one heck of a lot of precision measurements", that goes into making a program worthy to it's claims.

I realize, you may not have thought about this (at this point in the game). But, I encourage you to think about it. It would help verify and document any hypothesis on a global scale by everyone willing to build and measure to the model.

Take care,
Bart

Tesla list wrote:

Original poster: Jared E Dwarshuis <jdwarshui@xxxxxxxxx>

Hi: Terry
From: Jared Dwarshuis

(1)
The R in:      w = C/Wire length x sqrt(l/R)
is the radius (R) of the capacitor, not the radius of the coil. The
(l) is the length of the inductor. Sorry about the confusion!

(2)
It may well be true that the harmonics will resonate best at
frequencies slightly different then predicted. (although they will
also resonate at the predicted frequency) This is usually the case
with mechanical resonance as well. Not so much a flaw with theory,
just far to complicated to include the stiffness and stretch of rope
in the equations.
(3)
We have yet to design a system that does not work directly from the
equations, they are a very powerful design tool.