From: John Fields on
On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 06:13:53 -0700, AM
<thisthatandtheother(a)beherenow.org> wrote:

>On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 07:40:48 -0500, John Fields
><jfields(a)austininstruments.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>
>>With the 0.1�F caps and 1mH coil shown, we have a frequency of ~
>>22.5kHz and an inductive reactance of ~ 141 ohms which, for a Q of 200
>>which you used in another post, calls for about 0.7 ohms of resistance
>>in the circuit.
>>
>>I included it as the series resistance of the choke and, as reported
>>back by LTspice, once the charged cap is connected to the LC, the
>>circuit starts ringing, and after about 20ms (to be generous) decays
>>to essentially zero.
>>
>>Thus we have a decaying 20ms period populated by 46�s wide cycles, for
>>a total of about 435 cycles, a far cry from your claimed "millions of
>>cycles".
>
>
> Which proves that something is lost, or the process has a cost, as each
>cycle is decaying.
>
> It requires 'work' to 'cast' the electrons 'across' the face of the
>plates. :-)
>
> Kind of like playing "Trouble". The surface gets crowded with
>electrons and a few get lost when the pressures bump around.

---
Mostly it's the resistance of the choke which causes the decay.

Right-click on the choke and then clear the box that says "series
resistance" and run the sim.

Surprise!


JF

From: AM on
On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 09:23:18 -0500, John Fields
<jfields(a)austininstruments.com> wrote:

>Oops...


Dag Nabbit!
From: AM on
On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 09:36:26 -0500, John Fields
<jfields(a)austininstruments.com> wrote:

>On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 06:13:53 -0700, AM
><thisthatandtheother(a)beherenow.org> wrote:
>
>>On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 07:40:48 -0500, John Fields
>><jfields(a)austininstruments.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>With the 0.1�F caps and 1mH coil shown, we have a frequency of ~
>>>22.5kHz and an inductive reactance of ~ 141 ohms which, for a Q of 200
>>>which you used in another post, calls for about 0.7 ohms of resistance
>>>in the circuit.
>>>
>>>I included it as the series resistance of the choke and, as reported
>>>back by LTspice, once the charged cap is connected to the LC, the
>>>circuit starts ringing, and after about 20ms (to be generous) decays
>>>to essentially zero.
>>>
>>>Thus we have a decaying 20ms period populated by 46�s wide cycles, for
>>>a total of about 435 cycles, a far cry from your claimed "millions of
>>>cycles".
>>
>>
>> Which proves that something is lost, or the process has a cost, as each
>>cycle is decaying.
>>
>> It requires 'work' to 'cast' the electrons 'across' the face of the
>>plates. :-)
>>
>> Kind of like playing "Trouble". The surface gets crowded with
>>electrons and a few get lost when the pressures bump around.
>
>---
>Mostly it's the resistance of the choke which causes the decay.
>
>Right-click on the choke and then clear the box that says "series
>resistance" and run the sim.
>
>Surprise!
>
>
>JF

Hysteresis of the domains only causes heating but the only cost is
phase shift, because all that energy does get conserved? Or does that
heating also have a cost. Or is it eddy currents I am thinking of?
From: John Larkin on
On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 09:36:26 -0500, John Fields
<jfields(a)austininstruments.com> wrote:

>On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 06:13:53 -0700, AM
><thisthatandtheother(a)beherenow.org> wrote:
>
>>On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 07:40:48 -0500, John Fields
>><jfields(a)austininstruments.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>With the 0.1�F caps and 1mH coil shown, we have a frequency of ~
>>>22.5kHz and an inductive reactance of ~ 141 ohms which, for a Q of 200
>>>which you used in another post, calls for about 0.7 ohms of resistance
>>>in the circuit.
>>>
>>>I included it as the series resistance of the choke and, as reported
>>>back by LTspice, once the charged cap is connected to the LC, the
>>>circuit starts ringing, and after about 20ms (to be generous) decays
>>>to essentially zero.
>>>
>>>Thus we have a decaying 20ms period populated by 46�s wide cycles, for
>>>a total of about 435 cycles, a far cry from your claimed "millions of
>>>cycles".
>>
>>
>> Which proves that something is lost, or the process has a cost, as each
>>cycle is decaying.
>>
>> It requires 'work' to 'cast' the electrons 'across' the face of the
>>plates. :-)
>>
>> Kind of like playing "Trouble". The surface gets crowded with
>>electrons and a few get lost when the pressures bump around.
>
>---
>Mostly it's the resistance of the choke which causes the decay.
>
>Right-click on the choke and then clear the box that says "series
>resistance" and run the sim.
>
>Surprise!
>
>
>JF

What happens? Does it oscillate for millions of cycles?

In fact, it oscillates for millions of cycles even when the Q is 200.
Eventually Spice will run out of floating-point precision, but that's
just Spice.

John

From: John Larkin on
On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 07:40:48 -0500, John Fields
<jfields(a)austininstruments.com> wrote:

>On Wed, 07 Jul 2010 17:54:26 -0700, John Larkin
><jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 07 Jul 2010 18:57:11 -0500, John Fields
>><jfields(a)austininstruments.com> wrote:
>>
>>>On Wed, 07 Jul 2010 13:00:12 -0700, Jim Thompson
>>><To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon(a)On-My-Web-Site.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Larkin vaguely started his thread with no mention of an inductor
>>>>whatsoever, then added the inductor and claimed "sloshing" forever.
>>
>>I said that certain posts were untrue. Which they were.
>>
>>>
>>>---
>>>Yeah, well, Larkin claims a lot of things are absolutely true which
>>>break down around zero and infinity.
>>
>>Cite?
>
>---
>Well, the one that always brings a grin to my chops is: "Latching
>relays have infinite gain."
>
>There are others, but they slip my mind and it's just not worth the
>effort to find them.
>---
>
>>>>What-a-pile of BS...
>>>>use real switches and real inductors and real
>>>>capacitors.
>>>
>>>---
>>>Indeed.
>>
>>It helps to understand ideal circuits before you consider real
>>circuits. The ideals are the limiting cases. You CAN transfer charge
>>between equal value caps without loss of charge, and you can more
>>generally transfer energy between caps without loss; just use an
>>inductor.
>>
>>For those who dislike theory, Spice will slosh charge around between
>>two caps for millions of cycles. Try it.
>
>---
>OK
>
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>
>
>
>With the 0.1�F caps and 1mH coil shown, we have a frequency of ~
>22.5kHz and an inductive reactance of ~ 141 ohms which, for a Q of 200
>which you used in another post, calls for about 0.7 ohms of resistance
>in the circuit.
>
>I included it as the series resistance of the choke and, as reported
>back by LTspice, once the charged cap is connected to the LC, the
>circuit starts ringing, and after about 20ms (to be generous) decays
>to essentially zero.
>
>Thus we have a decaying 20ms period populated by 46�s wide cycles, for
>a total of about 435 cycles, a far cry from your claimed "millions of
>cycles".


How in the world could you post anything that wrong? If you actually
ran it, and accepted the results, well, there's nothing polite I can
say.

So let me say this as quietly as I can:

YOU DON'T NEED SPICE TO UNDERSTAND CIRCUITS THIS SIMPLE.

John