ScanTesla - Prime Time Version

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Original poster: Terry Fritz <teslalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Hi All,

I think I have a version of ScanTesla ready for the masses ;-))

http://drsstc.com/~terrell/modeling/ScanTesla500.zip

The parameters are input by the simple text file "input.txt".
It can do a DRSSTC or conventional coil.
It can find the maximum streamer energy or the maximum top voltage.
It reads out as it goes and stores everything to the file "output.txt" too.
It seems to all work fine ;-))

The C program is included and perhaps sort of understandable...
It was made and compiles under LCC (free windows C compiler), but now you 
should not have to change the program itself to run it.  You only need a C 
compiler if you want to go changing the program itself.

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~lcc-win32/

The input.txt file is now set to scan Lprimary from 10 to 100uH in steps of 
0.5uH and scan Lsecondary from 20 to 200mH.
It is set for a conventional coil with 20000 volts on the primary cap.
It is searching for the combination that gives the maximum top toroid voltage.

In general, the search parameters are start value, stop value, and 
increment value.  If the start and stop parameters are the same, it is a 
fixed value.

C1 3.749998e-008 3.749998e-008 9.999994e-010 	Cpri scan parameters
R1 2.000000e+000 2.000000e+000 1.000000e-002 	Rpri scan parameters
L1 9.999998e-006 9.999996e-005 4.999998e-007 	Lpri scan parameters
L2 0.200000e-001 0.200000e+000 0.500000e-002 	Lsec scan parameters
K12 1.500000e-001 1.500000e-001 1.000000e-002	Coupling scan parameters
R2 3.000001e+002 3.000001e+002 1.000000e+000 	Rsec scan parameters
C2 2.499999e-011 2.499999e-011 4.999998e-012 	Csec scan parameters
C3 0.300000e-011 0.300000e-011 9.999997e-013 	Cload scan parameters
R3 2.200000e+005 2.200000e+005 1.000000e+003 	Rload scan parameters
T1 0.000000e+000 9.999994e-004 1.490693e-314 	Model run time scan 
parameters (I see a bug in T1_inc (printing..) ;-))
Vrail 0.000000e+000					Rail voltage for DRSSTC.  Set to 0 for conventional 
coil
VCpri_init 2.000000e+004 				Cpri initial voltage.  Set to 0 for DRSSTC
DwellTime 1.999999e-004 				DRSSTC dwell time
Current_Limit 5.000001e+004 				DRSSTC primary current limit
Goal Type 0 						0 = find highest Vtop  1 = find highest streamer energy

You can change the input.txt file to do anything.  There is no error 
checking so garbage in, garbage out ;-))

Cheers,

	Terry