Re: ScanTesla program

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Original poster: "Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz" <acmdq@xxxxxxxxxx>

Tesla list wrote:

> Original poster: Terry Fritz <teslalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> I was thinking about making a program that could scan though Tesla coil 
> parameters to find configurations that give the best sparks.  Nothing is 
> really written yet, but the "idea" is here:
> http://drsstc.com/~terrell/modeling/ScanTesla.pdf
> It is sort of the manual version of MicroSim.  MicroSim just can't grind 
> though zillions of models and do just what we need.  So I thought it was 
> time to make a program that could really do what is needed.  I would 
> really like a program that could generate the data to make 3-D surface 
> plots of streamer power vs. say Lp and K...
> Any thoughts or comments are welcome.

Could be something similar to the programs Optesla and Optmag, that I
wrote to search the design space for capacitor-discharge Tesla coils
and magnifiers (http://www.coe.ufrj.br/~acmq/programs). I didn't add
a load in your style, but this would not be difficult.
The programs find the exact waveforms, given the parameters (assuming
a linear model), and optimize for a given objective.
I have a DRSSTC simulator in the program Sstcd. Almost your structure.
In that case I didn't use an exact solution, but this would not be
very difficult to implement.

Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz