Re: Trial and error

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Original poster: "Malcolm Watts" <m.j.watts@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

On 3 Apr 2005, at 12:31, Tesla list wrote:

> Original poster: "Steven Steele" <sbsteele@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Have any of you guys ever just built a good TC by trial and error? Or
> do ya'll always do quantom physics calculations first? LOL.
>                                    Steven Steele

My best coil was designed on the back of an envelope (literally!)
over a cup of tea during a 20 minute tea break. I resonated at
exactly the frequency it was designed to do so and, most crushing of
all for the relativistic afficionados, was designed using simple
lumped parameters. I did make room for consideration of losses due to
skin/proximity effects but a decision to spacewind with a 1:1
wire/space ratio plus a suitable wiresize for its (lowest) frequency
of operation based on a simple guideline kept the quantum genie
firmly corked up in its bottle.

Malcolm