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From: "Terrell W. Fritz"
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 20:15:23 -0700
Subject: Re: [TSSP] Primary gap questions

Hi Paul,

At 09:29 AM 1/2/2001 +0000, you wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>Just catching up on a backlog of emails. Thanks Barry, Malcolm, et al,
>for responding to my spark gap questions.
>
>I'm afraid that I don't see any way to incorporate the primary gap
>into the tssp model. This model only works in the linear steady state
>regime. I suspect that the best way to approach this is to allow
>the tssp model to generate an impedance response for the primary
>winding terminals, as a function of frequency. Given this, then
>regular off-the-shelf circuit analysis tools can be used to persue
>the overall time domain behaviour of the system.
>
>A question for those familiar with spice and microsim - can these
>programs accept an arbitrary linear two-terminal device described
>by a piecewise-linear complex impedance curve provided in, say, a
>csv file?

Not to "my" knowledge.  But I am no expert on using the fancy stuff with
MicroSim...

Cheers,

	Terry 

>
>Cheers,
>--
>Paul Nicholson,
>Manchester, UK.
>--


Maintainer Paul Nicholson, paul@abelian.demon.co.uk.