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Steve White wrote: > Question 1: ... Radius 2 (HV End) I had a quick look in JavaTC and it appears that the tapping point and the hot end (Radius2, Height2) of the primary are one and the same. The current version of JavaTC is using a slightly old version of the physics engine GeoTC to do its coil calculations. The latest GeoTC takes account of the unused (beyond the tap) outer turns of the primary and therefore has separate parameters for overall turns and tapping point. The unused outer turns of the primary don't affect the primary inductance, but do contribute constraints and sources to the electrostatic field and therefore can affect resonant frequency and coupling. The effect is small and the sign would depend on relative winding direction of primary and secondary coils. Bart Anderson wrote and maintains JavaTC. Perhaps he decided that the effect of the unused turns is so small that it is not worth the extra complication to the input form to specify overall turns and winding directions. > Question 2: How does the "Edit" button work in the toroid > topload section? When you've added one or more toroids, they are listed on the right as #1, #2, #3 and so on. To change a setting, click on the toroid in the list and its dimensions are displayed in the input fields on the left of the form. Change these fields and click 'Edit' to update the new values into the list of toroids. -- Paul Nicholson -- _______________________________________________ Tesla mailing list Tesla@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.pupman.com/mailman/listinfo/tesla