Re: Resonant Voltage Formula

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Original poster: "Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz" <acmdq-at-uol-dot-com.br> 

Tesla list wrote:
 >
 > Original poster: "Steve Conner" <steve.conner-at-optosci-dot-com>
 >
 >  >The quantiti [pi/Q] in "Vpeak = Vmax(1-exp(-n*pi/Q))" is known as the
 >  >"logarithmic decrement" of the waveform.
 >
 > The original poster was not asking about how the waveform decays naturally,
 > but how it rings _up_ when the resonance is forced by a SSTC-like driver. I
 > must admit that I don't know a simple formula for this one :(

This is exactly the formula for "ring up". The formula for "ring down"
is Vpeak = Vmax*exp(-n*pi/Q).

Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz