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RE: New formula for secondary resonant frequency



Original poster: "John H. Couture by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <couturejh-at-worldnet.att-dot-net>


Paul, All -

I checked your new formula with the JHCTES Ver 3.2 on line computer program
with the following results. The Ver 3.2 and the formula appear to agree
closely with the first three coils but with Marc's coil there is a big
discrepancy. The Ver 3.2 gives a much lower kHz (248.06) for this 1700 turn
coil compared to the formula. This is strange because the Ver 3.2 as I
recalled agreed closely with John Freau's coil of 1550 turns. John could you
check this for us? I used 2.1 Rad, 1550 turns, 68 TPI, 0 for Sec term, with
output 261.92 kHz. Marc could you run John's coil through your formula? Also
thank you for giving me this opportunity to check the JHCTES program.

Coil         A        B      C        D       E

Big CW      90.9     90.2    0.7     92.02    1.12
Half coil  150.7    151.4    0.7    150.58    0.28
Terry      148.4    146.1    2.3    150.58    1.73
Marc       276.9    276.9    0      248.06   28.84
John F.     ?        ?       ?      261.92    ?

A - Measured kHz
B - Formula calc kHz
C - Difference between measured and Formula
D - JHCTES Ver 3.1 or 3.2 calc kHz
E - Difference between measured and JHCTES

Note that for the Half coil and Terry's coil the JHCTES is closer to the
measured value than the formula. It would help if more coilers would measure
their coils and check the results with the above two calc methods and advise
the List.

John Couture

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-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 7:06 AM
To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject: New formula for secondary resonant frequency


Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>"
<paul-at-abelian.demon.co.uk>

Hi All,

Calculator fiends may like to try out the following formula for
estimation of secondary resonant frequency. Applies to bare coils
(ie no top-load and no primary) in normal grounded-base configuration,
when situated over a reasonably well defined ground, with the coil
base not more than half the coil length above ground.

Starting with:

 turns;
 h = length of secondary winding, metres;
 d = diameter of secondary - metres;
 b = height of winding start above ground - metres;
 awg = wire gauge, AWG;

 (metres = inches * 0.0254)

Compute:

 x = h/d                                  (form factor)
 wd = 7.348e-3/pow(1.122932, awg-1)       (wire diameter - metres)
 sr = turns * wd/h                        (spacing ratio)

 fa = -94.6683*awg*awg*awg + 9000.55*awg*awg - 301175*awg + 3.64056e+6
 fs = 3.50662*sr*sr - 7.90171*sr + 5.83019
 fx = -0.000211179*x*x*x + 0.00557568*x*x + 0.0664809*x - 0.0153254
 t = fa * fs * fx/h/h
 s = -3.85188e-15*t*t*t + 1.17176e-8*t*t + 0.631829*t + 482.463

and finally,

 fb = log( b/h/0.2)                       (use the natural logarithm)
 Fres = s * (1.02 + fb/98.9065);          (Hertz)

Accuracy is around 2% average, with a peak error of around 4%.

Some examples:

My big CW coil: b=0.15, h=1.6, turns=725, awg=12, d=0.58;
                Measured 90.9 kHz, formula 90.2 kHz, -0.8% error

My half-coil:   b=0.15, h=0.8, turns=365, awg=12, d=0.58;
                Measured 150.7 kHz, formula 151.4 kHz, +0.5% error

Terry's big coil: b=0.025, h=0.762, awg=24, d=0.2606, turns=1001;
                Measured 148.4 kHz, formula 146.1 kHz, -1.5% error

Marc Metlicka's
large h/d coil: b=0.3302, h=1.07696, awg=24, d=0.1081, turns=1700;
                Measured 276.9 kHz, formula 276.9 kHz, 0.0% error

The formula was derived by curve fitting to a database of around
1700 simulated secondary coils, and is expected to be more accurate
than estimates based on Medhurst capacitance.

Regards,
--
Paul Nicholson,
Manchester, UK.
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