From: AM on
On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 08:43:26 -0700, John Larkin
<jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:

>
>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.

He posted the wrong file, dindgledorf. A mere button press error.

Grow up.
From: AM on
On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 08:47:24 -0700, John Larkin
<jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:

> Check Your Work!

It was a button press error on a file, dingledorf.

Check your brain. You first.
From: John Larkin on
On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 11:00:01 -0500, John Fields
<jfields(a)austininstruments.com> wrote:

>On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 08:35:15 -0700, John Larkin
><jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:
>
>>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?
>
>---
>Don't ask me, I might confuse you with a reply you don't want to
>understand.
>
>Instead, just run the sim and find out for yourself.


There is no point in simulating this. There's a closed-form solution
that's well known. It's in most any introductory EE text.

>---
>
>>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.
>
>---
>And in the real world you'll run into noise before you hit millions of
>cycles, but that's just the real world.

Explain "run into noise" please. There are electrical resonators with
Qs over 1e8, and they'll be down roughly a percent after a million
cycles. There are physical phenomena, like NMR resonances, with
real-world Qs over 1e9. They ring visibly on a scope for seconds at
500 MHz.

>
>From earlier:
>
>>>>>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.
>
>what is it you don't understand about "essentially zero"?

If you are trying to say that lossy circuits have loss, I won't argue
the point.

John

From: John Larkin on
On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 11:08:22 -0500, John Fields
<jfields(a)austininstruments.com> wrote:

>On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 08:47:24 -0700, John Larkin
><jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:
>
>>On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 09:23:18 -0500, John Fields
>><jfields(a)austininstruments.com> wrote:
>>
>>>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
>>>
>>>---
>>>Oops...
>>
>>Remember what Miss Denton said: Check Your Work!
>
>---
>Why bother when there's always you there, nipping at my heels?
>
>

Hey, look as silly as you like.

John

From: John Larkin on
On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 09:20:25 -0700, AM
<thisthatandtheother(a)beherenow.org> wrote:

>On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 08:43:26 -0700, John Larkin
><jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>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.
>
> He posted the wrong file, dindgledorf. A mere button press error.
>
>Grow up.

Did you look at the file he DID post?


But hey, this little thread has been valuable. I got to thinking about
ringing LC circuits and I think I may have stumbled onto the best
digital delay generator architecture yet. I'll have to brainstorm this
with my guys and see if it's practical.

So, thanks to all.

John