Project: "Black&White" TC for 10kVA+  (caps: 3 Maxwell 0.3uF/100kV)                    
Tesla Equations
Input value cells are yellow measured values are green
     Results are in blue beyond actual situat. extrapol.
Conversion factors Specific resistance at 20C Density
1 inch = 2,54 cm Aluminium  Al  (20C) 0,02857 Ohm mm2/m Acryl.Rho 1.18 1,18  kg/dm3
1  foot = 0,3048 m Copper Cu  (20C) 0,01786 Ohm mm2/m PVC Rho  1,4  kg/dm3
Tungsten  W  (20C) 0,055 Ohm mm2/m Al     Rho 2,702  kg/dm3
Brass 0,07 0,09 Ohm mm2/m Cu    Rho 8,93  kg/dm3
Bronce 0,018 0,056 Ohm mm2/m
Secondary Design:        
Dimensions:  D = diameter, B = length of windings, G = wire gauge, T = turns/inch or cm
AWG diameter wdg.length AWG turns/unit length length Approx. Weight of secondary
G D B G T of tube Dens.Rho  8,93  kg/dm3
20  inch 7,87 39,39 20,1 29,2 turns/inch 46,46 inch Former D 1,99 dm
enter value in [cm] 20,00 100,1 0,087 11,49 turns/cm 118,0 cm Former L 11,8 dm
diameter of wire, bare copper    = 0,800 mm        ( 0,503 mm2  cross.sect.) Former x 8[1] mm
diameter of wire, with insulation = 0,860 mm Former V 5,7 dm3
wire spacing between turns = 0,010 mm Former W 50,6 kg
Disks x 10[2] mm
Number of secondary turns = 1150,00 Circumference = pi * D Disks No. 4
Circum = 24,74 inch Disks V 1,2 dm3
Length of wire needed  =    2371 feet Radius = 3,94 inch Disks W 11,1 kg
722,6 m Circum = 62,83 cm Copper W 3,2 kg
Radius = 10,00 cm PU-Seal 4,5 kg
H/D aspect ratio = 5,00 Weight = 3,243 kg Cu Weight = 69,5 kg = calculated
d/s wire diam./spacing ratio = 0,92 DC Resistance =  25,67 Ohm        Space wound Sec' with Nylon-line Weight = 48,0 kg = measured
DC Resistance =  14,50 Ohm
RF Resistance of straight wire, with skin-effect =  32,69 Ohm
Coil RF Resistance with skin- and proximity effect =  101,19 Ohm Nylon f = 0,8715 mm
Q-factor, without considering of dielectric loss(=coil-former + sealing) Q =  309 interturn space s = 0,8715 mm
 
Wheeler Equation:  R = radius ", N = no.of turns, B = length of windings "
Date
L (uH) = (R^2 x N^2) / (9R + 10B) fmeas ########
Q kHz
L = 0,047746 H      L. = 47,7 mH L Meas.= 54,67 mH 23,2 1 14,8 Rv (Ohm)
Error in calculated L =  -12,7% 54,60 mH 2,9 0,12 14,2 Rv (Ohm)
An approximation to the Nagaoka inductance, 
accurate to 5 decimal places, was given by Lundin [1]. 
 a = radius, metres.  0,1
 b = length, metres. 1,0005
 N = number of turns 1150,00
 MU = 4*3.14159*1.0E-7 1,26E-06
 x = 4 * a*a/(b*b) 0,03996
 f = (1 + 0.383901*x + 0.017108*x*x)/(1+0.258952*x) 1,004969
 Ldc = MU*N*N*a*a*PI/b *(f - 8*a/(3*PI*b)) Henries. 0,048016 H
(Accurate to rather better than 1%.) Ldc =  48,02 mH    XL= 31313 Ohm
Error in calculated Ldc =  -12,2%
Counting turns, 30.3.00
  Turns DL [cm]
90 18,6
Medhurst Formula: Self Capacitance: C(pf) = K x D D = dia. in cm 100 21,3
100 21,3
K will automatically be determined by K from table K from fit 100 21,6
using H/D from a lookup table at the end 0,810 0,818  * ) 100 22,5
of this spreadsheet 100 22,0
from table from fit 100 21,9
Self capacitance of secondary: C(pf) = 16,2 pF 16,4 pF 100 22,0
23 4,7
* ) Setting x = H/D (with 1< H/D < 8 ) the fitted function for K may 813
be used in the form:  K = a+bx+cx^(1.5)+dlnx/x+e/x^2
or, if H/D < 1 or H/D > 8, by the fitted function for K,
in the form:     K = a+bx+cx^2lnx+dx^(2.5)+e/x^(0.5)
with the parameters a,b,c,d,e  in sheet "Medhurst". That's the way it is implemented.
Measurements 22.7.00 / Finn+Sk
  Resonance, coil with Toroid 1.6/0.4m
69 kHz outdoors
Self resonant frequency of secondary: manual trick trimming possibility of
total secondary capacitance Measurements 11.4.00 / Sk+Andi
f(khz) = 1/2pi(sqrt (L * C)) man.corr. 0 pF (normally 0) Resonance, bare coil, indoors
fo Scope
f = 180,5 kHz Unloaded by Toroid or Sphere formula: 119,00 kHz amplitude
  119,0 kHz Measured C top =  32,77  pF 119,51 kHz 60-70%, f+
Error in f =   51,6% calculated - measured 118,67 kHz 60-70%, f-
(the addition for C total is approx. only!) 0,84 kHz bandwidth ?
f = 103,8 kHz Loaded C total = 48,97  pF 141,7 Q
69,0 kHz Measured 288,5 Rv (Ohm)
Error in f =   50,4% calculated - measured In order to have a more realistic C total Higher f peaks
run Terry Fritz's great E-Tesla   for 309,82 kHz 2,603529 x fo
722,1 Lambda/4 [m] C total = 0,00 pF 448,00 kHz 3,764706 x fo
722,6 wire length [m] ( Fill and run sheet E-Tesla in order
  to automatically fill-in the value ! ) 119,40 kHz coil moved, ca. 1m
Readings on HP counter
Primary Design:  
Di = inner diameter , S = spacing between turns , n = number of turns, d = wire or tubing diameter
From Jim Lux, mail on 27th August 2000, Pupman
Di, S and d are in inches inn.dia. spacing wire dia angle # turns "calculating safe primary turn-to-turn distance"
Di S d a n The breakdown strength for air in a uniform field (not the case for
enter values:> inches 13,78 0,472 0,315 30 10 parallel wires) is about 31 kV/cm (70 kV/inch)
cm 35,0 1,20 0,80 30 10
D is center to center spacing of cylinders
w = width of windings on one side = 7,4 inches = 18,8 cm d is gap between cylinders
W = proj. of windings on one side = 6,4 inches = 16,3 cm r is radius of cylinders
h = height of windings = 3,7 inches = 9,4 cm
R = average radius = (1/2 * Di) + (1/2 * W) = 10,1 inches = 25,6 cm E = V * SQRT(D^2-4*r^2)/(2 * r * (D - r)*arccosh(D/2r))
w/(2*R) used as a replacement for H/D for proxieffect calc. =  0,366606
d/s for proxyeffect calc. =  0,4
Uprim = 8000 V
Total outside diameter of coil = 26,6 inches = 67,6 cm n used =   5 turns
V = 1600 V / turn 1600 V / turn
Lh. = 67,4 uH Lh(uH) = (R2 * n2) / (8R+11W ) D = 2,0 cm 2,0 cm
Lv  = 79,7 uH Lv(uH) = (R2 * n2) / (9R+10h ) d = 0,8 cm 0,8 cm
r = 0,4 cm 0,4 cm
L   = 70,7 uH L (uH) = sqr [ (Lv*sin(a))2 + (Lh*cos(a))2 ] D / 2r = 2,5
80,6 uH @ 9.37 Turns E = 1462 V/cm 1950 V/cm
Jim Lux's Küpfmüller P.86
(2 parallel cylinders)
calc.of trigonometric func's.
angle a
degrees 30
arc 0,523599
sine 0,5
cosine 0,866025
tangent 0,57735
cotangent 1,732051
Tubing or wire
Turn # w W h R Lh Lv L Turn # Dia. Dia. Length S Length
[inch] [inch] [inch] [inch] [uH] [uH] [uH] [inch] [mm] [inch] [m]
1[3] 0,315 0,273 0,157 7,026 0,8 0,8 0,8 1 14,33 364 45,00 1,14
2 1,102 0,955 0,551 7,367 3,1 3,0 3,1 2 15,69 398 49,29 2,40
3 1,890 1,637 0,945 7,708 6,7 6,8 6,7 3 17,05 433 53,57 3,76
4 2,677 2,318 1,339 8,049 11,5 12,1 11,7 4 18,42 468 57,86 5,23
5 3,465 3,000 1,732 8,390 17,6 19,0 17,9 5 19,78 502 62,14 6,80
6,45 4,606 3,989 2,303 8,884 28,6 31,9 29,4 6,45 21,76 553 68,35 8,54
6,97 5,016 4,344 2,508 9,062 33,2 37,4 34,3 6,97 22,47 571 70,58 10,33
8 5,827 5,046 2,913 9,413 43,3 49,8 45,1 8 23,87 606 75,00 12,24
9 6,614 5,728 3,307 9,754 54,6 63,8 57,1 9 25,24 641 79,28 14,25
9,37 6,906 5,980 3,453 9,880 59,2 69,4 61,9 9,37 25,74 654 80,87 16,31
11 8,189 7,092 4,094 10,436 81,6 97,7 85,9 11 27,96 710 87,85 18,54
12 8,976 7,774 4,488 10,777 97,4 117,9 102,9 12 29,33 745 92,13 20,88
13 9,764 8,456 4,882 11,118 114,8 140,3 121,7 13 30,69 780 96,42 23,33
14 10,551 9,138 5,276 11,459 133,9 165,1 142,3 14 32,05 814 100,70 25,88
15 11,339 9,820 5,669 11,800 154,8 192,3 165,0 15 33,42 849 104,99 28,55
16 12,126 10,501 6,063 12,140 177,4 222,1 189,6 16 34,78 883 109,27 31,33
17 12,913 11,183 6,457 12,481 202,0 254,5 216,3 17 36,15 918 113,56 34,21
18 13,701 11,865 6,850 12,822 228,5 289,7 245,2 18 37,51 953 117,84 37,20
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