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Re: Tesla coil voltage and electric field simulation in DOS
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To: tesla@pupman.com
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Subject: Re: Tesla coil voltage and electric field simulation in DOS
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From: Bert Hickman <bert.hickman@aquila.com>
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Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 06:39:08 -0800
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Subscriber: bert.hickman@aquila.com Mon Jan 13 21:49:15 1997
Tesla List wrote:
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> Subscriber: harris@parkave.net Sun Jan 12 21:46:12 1997
> Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 21:58:32 -0400
> From: Ed Harris <harris@parkave.net>
> To: tesla@pupman.com
> Subject: Tesla coil voltage and electric field simulation in DOS
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> All,
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> Here is a simulation program which solves laplace's equation in
> cylicrical cooridnates to show approximately what the voltage and
> electric fields look like around a tesla coil. I sent this out before,
> but some of the new people might like to play with it.
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> Torroids and shperes or no terminal can be chosen and the
> dimensions of the torroids and sphere can be changed on the fly
> while the program is running. There are also keys to toggle
> between display of the electric field magnitude and the voltage
> map. The map is displayed as a cross section through the
> center of the coil.
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> I'm sending the compiled and
> optimized version for DOS if you can run that.
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> have fun,
> -Ed Harris
Ed,
Thanks - this is a very nice visualization tool!! The E-Field map for a
large toroid very clearly shows the shielding impact.
-- Bert --