From: John Fields on
On Sun, 25 Jul 2010 04:39:32 +1000, Grant <omg(a)grrr.id.au> wrote:

>As far as the topic goes, I'd still like to know what the triangle
>wave is driving, 'cos I like to see some of the bigger picture shed
>some light on the smaller details.

---
He says it's pretty hush-hush, but since he's specified it as
capacitive and fairly high-voltage, I'd guess a piezo ceramic, poled
PVDF film, or some sort of varactor-like device.

From: Grant on
On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 15:54:49 -0500, John Fields <jfields(a)austininstruments.com> wrote:

>On Sun, 25 Jul 2010 04:39:32 +1000, Grant <omg(a)grrr.id.au> wrote:
>
>>As far as the topic goes, I'd still like to know what the triangle
>>wave is driving, 'cos I like to see some of the bigger picture shed
>>some light on the smaller details.
>
>---
>He says it's pretty hush-hush, but since he's specified it as
>capacitive and fairly high-voltage, I'd guess a piezo ceramic, poled
>PVDF film, or some sort of varactor-like device.

Yeah, but you know how sometimes people ask for the wrong thing, it
often helps to have a bigger slice of the picture.

Like square voltage makes triangle current in inductor, square
current a triangle voltage on capacitor.

So one might generate a lovely triangle with the current resonating
circuit with selected harmonics, only to have it all fall over when
loaded.

Grant.
From: Jim Thompson on
On Sun, 25 Jul 2010 08:58:27 +1000, Grant <omg(a)grrr.id.au> wrote:

>On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 15:54:49 -0500, John Fields <jfields(a)austininstruments.com> wrote:
>
>>On Sun, 25 Jul 2010 04:39:32 +1000, Grant <omg(a)grrr.id.au> wrote:
>>
>>>As far as the topic goes, I'd still like to know what the triangle
>>>wave is driving, 'cos I like to see some of the bigger picture shed
>>>some light on the smaller details.
>>
>>---
>>He says it's pretty hush-hush, but since he's specified it as
>>capacitive and fairly high-voltage, I'd guess a piezo ceramic, poled
>>PVDF film, or some sort of varactor-like device.
>
>Yeah, but you know how sometimes people ask for the wrong thing, it
>often helps to have a bigger slice of the picture.
>
>Like square voltage makes triangle current in inductor, square
>current a triangle voltage on capacitor.
>
>So one might generate a lovely triangle with the current resonating
>circuit with selected harmonics, only to have it all fall over when
>loaded.
>
>Grant.

That's why I'm tiring of all these bloviator idealistic "solutions".
Let's see a full-up REAL circuit with all the controls and power
supplies working for more than one cycle.

This is supposed to be a "design" group, is it not?

...Jim Thompson
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From: John Fields on
On Sun, 25 Jul 2010 08:58:27 +1000, Grant <omg(a)grrr.id.au> wrote:

>On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 15:54:49 -0500, John Fields <jfields(a)austininstruments.com> wrote:
>
>>On Sun, 25 Jul 2010 04:39:32 +1000, Grant <omg(a)grrr.id.au> wrote:
>>
>>>As far as the topic goes, I'd still like to know what the triangle
>>>wave is driving, 'cos I like to see some of the bigger picture shed
>>>some light on the smaller details.
>>
>>---
>>He says it's pretty hush-hush, but since he's specified it as
>>capacitive and fairly high-voltage, I'd guess a piezo ceramic, poled
>>PVDF film, or some sort of varactor-like device.
>
>Yeah, but you know how sometimes people ask for the wrong thing, it
>often helps to have a bigger slice of the picture.
>
>Like square voltage makes triangle current in inductor, square
>current a triangle voltage on capacitor.
>
>So one might generate a lovely triangle with the current resonating
>circuit with selected harmonics, only to have it all fall over when
>loaded.
---
Agreed.

JF

From: Tim Williams on
"John Larkin" <jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote in message news:fmjn46d0kg7hemmke086s3d8clvimve115(a)4ax.com...
> I didn't do Spice

Then why repeat it? There is no shortage of posts, I can go anywhere in the thread and find the same data if I want it. It's not going anywhere, it's archived on Google in as many posts, for all the world to see.

> As far as disregard, I post about like most people post.

Ah, so rudeness isn't rudeness when everyone else is a cretin?

Except me, apparently (except for the obvious rudeness of calling you out).

> This is casual conversation, like shooting the bull at a bar
> not like some city council meeting under Robert's Rules.

So when "shooting the bull", you repeat all words that have been said up to that point? You must be dreary for conversation...

> But you don't use LT Spice? It can be handy.

Better, I use PaperSpice ;-)

Tim

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