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From: Paul
Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 10:15:18 +0100
Subject: Re: [TSSP] Toroid field stress

Terrell W. Fritz wrote:

> Its that darn metric system... :-))
 
> Thus, the 600 array I did and got an answer of 10.2 kV should have been
> 10.2 x 2.54 = 25.9kV.  Mysteriously close to the 26kV we all though it
> should be :-))

That's brilliant!  Can we fish around for a few more breakout voltage
measurements and see if they shape up too?  If so, and I'll bet they
do, then E-Tesla immediately doubles its utility.  You can add a final
loop which scans the stress grid for the hottest spot and so print out
the corresponding breakout voltage.  You could print a warning if the
hottest spot happens not to be on the toroid!

> So It looks like E-Tesla6 may indeed be able to do this stress stuff
> for our purposes with yet another minor revision.....

Hope you can get plenty of actual measurements across a range of coils
and loads, then we can establish some confidence in what looks like a 
brilliant result. Comes down again to finding an easy and reliable way
for folk to measure their breakout voltages.

Of course, then you'll have to apply ET to a heap of artificial systems
to produce a database of breakout voltages, from which you can
extract a magic formula.  That would be a wickedly useful formula, 
epoch-making I should think.  It would pretty well close the loop on
optimisation for top volts. I have a computer you can borrow.

Cheers,
--
Paul Nicholson,
Manchester, UK.
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Maintainer Paul Nicholson, paul@abelian.demon.co.uk.