From: "Barton B. Anderson"
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 01:37:40 -0700
Subject: [TSSP] F A N T C: - It's NEW! - and needs some TSSP input
Hi ALL, There's a NEW program in the works. It's called F A N T C. It's "to be" an online JavaScript program for ALL to use at their online-leisure. This is not the sterio-typical design program. This is quite unique! A brief history. One month ago, a coiler used JavaTC. There was a problem calculating Cself accurately with his particular coil. (JavaTC needed to pull in Ces). Paul offered to write a script for Ces that I could embed. To make a long story short, Paul added a few other tid-bits to the pile. It didn't take long (2 or 3 emails) to figure out these functions deserved their own front end. We decided it would be good to make this available as an on-line program. I offered to do the interfacing of the user-to-core functions. So, back and forth we went. Paul writing core functions and myself writing the interface. It's at a point now where it needs to be tested by someone other than the programmers. That's where you guys come in. Rather than try to define what FANTC is, let me give you some idea of what it can do: IT CAN! * Find Fres, Ces, Cdc, Cee, Les, Ldc, Lee, Lm, K. * Calculate the capacitance of multiple spheres, toroids, discs, and cylinders, and coils, in free space, or in-situ with other components.. * Ability to change voltage profiles for secondary analysis (loaded, bare, linear, DC). * Calculate self and mutual inductances (ACMI is embedded). * Calculate distributed reactances, effective lumped reactances, and resonant frequencies. * Calculate voltage and current profiles. * Generate a drawing of the system components and draw the voltage and current graphs. Well, you get the idea. I really need everyones help to give it a good run through. I've tested it on IE4 and Netscape 4. I suspect Opera and AOL would be problematic (not sure). I'll say nothing on how to use it - that would kind of defeat the purpose of testing it. Thanks guys, Here's the URL: http://www.classictesla.com/fantc/fantc.html
Maintainer Paul Nicholson, paul@abelian.demon.co.uk.