Design tool: TC-plan V 1.0

["Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>]

Original poster: "Kurt Schraner by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <k.schraner-at-datacomm.ch>

Hi All,

my Excel TC design tool has been further developped, and is now in a
state, to be presented to you. The idea was to generate a Tesla-coil
design platform, where different relevant tools can be plugged-in.
Insofar it goes a step further, than other currently available TC-design
programs. In addition to the usual sequence of design formulas, as
given, i.e. at http://home.earthlink-dot-net/~electronxlc/ I've included the
following topics:

- Sparklength formulas for efficient TC's by John Freau
- E-field and secondary C calculation by Terry's E-Tesla6
- Mutual inductance and coupling factor by Paul Nicholson's ACMI
- Skineffect 
- Proximity effect
- My Excel-form of Terry's MMC calculator
- Different other capacitor calculations (with dielectrics table).
- Several informative sheets (i.e. sparkgap tables, TC-loss posting..)

The main results are summarized in a TC circuit-sketch sheet. The needed
modules, including the executables of E-Tesla6 and ACMI, and some
example inputs are zipped into a single file. The whole zip-file is
about 200kB, and can be downloaded under:

http://home.datacomm.ch/k.schraner/TCplan.zip


Most of the contents in the spreadsheet stems from other peoples
developments or general knowledge: My special thanks go to John Freau,
Terry Fritz, Jochen Kronjaeger, Jim Lux, Paul Nicholson, Mark S.
Rzeszotarski, Ed Sonderman, Malcolm Watts - from whose this excel-sheet
includes TCML postings or access to their programs.

Apart from the pure executables of E-Tesla and ACMI in TCplan.zip, I
strongly recommend downloading the full packages of the programs,
including documentation and source code from

http://hot-streamer-dot-com/TeslaCoils/Programs/Programs.htm for E-Tesla
http://www.abelian.demon.co.uk/acmi/                     for
ACMI            

so that you can keep your copy of E-Tesla and ACMI up to date, and
inform yourself about these nice programs. A warning however: be careful
in using potential newer versions with TC-plan.xls: the I/O transfer
between the spreadsheet and the 2 programs is based on the current forms
of input/output.

Using multi-worksheet excel workbooks is my preferred method of
designing TC's. My own spreadsheets follow the
development of each coil-project, and are getting individualized on that
way, when experimental data become available. I hope, TC-plan will be
useful to some of you!

Cheers
        Kurt Schraner