Hi Gary,The resistor I'm measuring is the resistor that Terry Fritz called out on the Terry filter (L100J1K0). It's 0.75"D x 6"L, 1000 ohms, 100W, 1000V.
Your right, it is a good sanity check, but remember your coil is a single layer air core type. The answer is layers. For proof, I ran multi-layer air core coil equations to find what wire size I would need, turns, layers, etc. at the .75" x 6" dimensions in order to achieve 1000 ohms with 62.7mH.
If I use 39 AWG, 1460 turns with 4.23 close-wound layers at the dimensions above, then I get 1000 ohms at 69mH. I used simple magnet wire for these calculations.
The larger 145mH direct measurement value is possible with more layers, but it requires a slightly larger wire size near 37 AWG. If I use 37 AWG, 950 turns, 10.33 layers, then 1000 ohms at 132mH.
Anyway, you get the point. I basically backward engineered the resistor to see how easy it would be to achieve both the measured and the calculated values. I would need to run a resonance test to be sure which is right. I expect the lower 62.7mH value is close.
Layers make all this possible and is the "only" way it could be done. If it was a single layer, then "extremely" low inductances.
Take care, Bart Lau, Gary wrote:
What are the dimensions of these resistors? My 6"x28" secondary coil's inductance is only 89mH, so 145mH seems huge. Granted, the resistor is wound with much finer wire with more turns, but it'll make an interesting sanity check to see how many turns a secondary wound to the same dimensions as your resistor would require to achieve 145 mH. Regards, Gary Lau MA, USA-----Original Message----- From: tesla-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:tesla-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of bartb Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 9:17 PM To: Tesla Coil Mailing List Subject: Re: [TCML] Terry Filter Resistors Hey Gary, Matt, Confirmed today at 145mH on todays reading (leads). Also measured 992 ohms. Measurements with 27XT. I think Matt is correct and it's logical. If I do the math (noting that the 27XT frequency is 1kHz): Z = 145mH x 6.28 x 1kHz = 910.6 ohms. XL = sqrt(992^2 - 910.6^2) = 394 ohms (note R-Z due to -sqrt). L = 396 / (6.28 x 1kHz) = 62.7mH Still significant, but then these are rather large wire wound resistors, so not overly surprising. Regards, Bart Gary wrote:Please confirm "I just checked the resistor in question and it measured 146mH at1kHz." 146 mH sounds about a million times too high for the inductance of a wirewound resistor.Matt wrote: I think part of the problem is that most LC meters don't measure Inductancedirectly. They actually measure the Z of the device and assume Z=XL, and therefore L=Z/2pif, which for most inductors is close enough. For a wire-wound resistor though, this is not a good approximation, since actually Z=sqrt(R2+XL2), and R is no longer negligible. You could use the L?shown by the meter to calculate what Z it actually read by Z=2pifL, then using the known resistance, calculate a corrected XL? from XL=sqrt(Z2-R2)and from that, determine the corrected L by L=XL/2pif.Matt D._______________________________________________ Tesla mailing list Tesla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.pupman.com/mailman/listinfo/tesla_______________________________________________ Tesla mailing list Tesla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.pupman.com/mailman/listinfo/tesla
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