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This sounds like pure excellence =) I'd be happy to help beta test when the time comes Jay Sent from a tiny phone with a tiny keyboard. ----- Reply message ----- From: "paul" <tcml88@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Tesla Coil Mailing List" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [TCML] Yet another TC modeling program Date: Tue, Sep 2, 2014 2:40 AM A new modeling program is in the pipeline. It is based on tssp software but this one is a full 3D solver so that coils and electrodes don't have to share a cylindrical symmetry. That means that components can be placed in any relative position and orientation. Also it is not limited to primary, secondary and tertiary coils and regular TC arrangements of interconnects. You can model the interactions between any number of coils and electrodes and they can be wired together arbitrarily. The approach taken is a little different to tssp. The new program confines itself to calculating the distributed self and mutual reactances of all the components and does not proceed to solve the network to find the resonances and volts/current distributions. Instead it outputs a spice sub-circuit representing the distributed reactances and resistances as a detailed LCR network. The user then wires this sub-circuit into arbitrary circuit models and can use all the functions of spice to simulate the system. Example: a bipolar magnifier, http://abelian.org/tssp/140902a.gif conical primaries, vertical secondaries, horizontal tertiary coils. Each electrode (eg toroid) and both ends of each coil are brought out to 'pins' on the sub-circuit and you have to specify the wiring yourself in the spice model. I feel this approach will be more useful and general purpose, and the program may have applications beyond TCs. Domestic PCs have improved a lot since tssp was written (2003) and we no longer have to be constrained by design compromises which were appropriate back then. Memory size is the limit, the above example is about the max complexity for 4G RAM. Hopefully an open-source C/Linux version will be fit to offer this winter. Trials are showing fair performance on most of the test cases used by geotc but there remains a lot of work to make the program presentable and documented. -- Paul Nicholson -- _______________________________________________ Tesla mailing list Tesla@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.pupman.com/mailman/listinfo/tesla _______________________________________________ Tesla mailing list Tesla@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.pupman.com/mailman/listinfo/tesla