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From: "Terrell W. Fritz"
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2001 12:21:10 -0700
Subject: Re: [TSSP] MandK Mutual Inductance Program

Hi Mark,

Great!!  I have been waiting 2 1/2 years for this :-))  I have used the
version 2 off and on and it always seems to work very well.  Apparently,
you and Paul use different methods (?) so we now have two great programs to
do mutual inductance!!  Was it just last month when there were none!! ;-)

Cheers,

	Terry

At 09:37 PM 1/2/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>Hello All:
>    I have decided to go public with my mutual inductance calculation
>program and have placed it on a web site for easy access (assuming I got
>everything set up right).  This program computes the mutual inductance
>between two coils using a direct numerical integration technique  (Neumann
>double line integral).  It yields answers similar to Paul's ACMI program,
>although the calculation is a bit slower.  It has a number of other features
>of interest to individuals who wish to design tesla coils using computers
>first instead of strictly by trial and error.  I would prefer not to
>announce it to the general Tesla list until after I get more feedback
>(perhaps V3.2).  However, freeware is freeware.
>        I fixed several things Bart Anderson suggested (like reverse order
>number ranges are now permitted) and wrote an eight page document describing
>a bit about how it works and what the numbers mean.  I get results similar
>to ACMI and really close to the experimental data recently described by Bart.
>        Those of you out there with pre-release copies of MandK with version
>numbers below V3.1 should definitely update their files and pitch the old
>versions.  You can find the files at the URL:
>http://idrive.cwru.edu/msr7/Web/
>        BTW, The file primary.pdf, available at the same URL, is a FAQ about
>tesla coil primaries I wrote for beginners about a year ago and is not
>specifically related to the MandK program, although it discusses mutual
>inductance a bit.  I stuck it out there too, in the hopes that someday we
>will put together a fairly comprehensize FAQ on tesla coils.  
>        I welcome comments and suggestions for improvement.
>Regards,
>
>    
>Mark S. Rzeszotarski, Ph.D.
>MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio
>


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