Electronics and Calculators – Revisiting

We need to aplogise for the late coming of our application for the electronic design calculator. A lot of the application design is based on tried and trusted formulation, especially around inductors and magnetism but as any engineer will tell you, there is still nothing better than an inductance meter and trial and error for a quick check. I cannot see a 'real engineer' building a high performance RF design in the GHz range based solely on mere speculation and formula. Temperature plays a role, mechanical stress plays a role - there's a million and one reasons why those that design and those that fix see flaws in each other's reasoning.

 We had numerous hassles in getting our inductance calculator to work properly, mainly based on a comparison check made between known inductance values, lengths, radii and turns compared to online calculators based on AWG, BWG and SWG gauges. Yes, it’s been a nightmare, a lot of it coming down to fatigue (on my part – it’s a part time job) and writing proper code. Right now it’s more of a hassle to put all the modules together and ensure users see a) merit and b) find it easy to use. We are trying to make it as simple as possible for the end user but therein also lies a problem. Easiness makes things difficult for a designer. We see flaws in one module when just about completing another module so we go back to the last module and make changes. I want this to work – I want it to be better than the online calculators that are currently available.  Our EquationX calculator uses the Alpha Five V.9 desktop database chiefly for it’s RAD capability. It’s quick, cheap and stable as a rock.  Our RLC module is shown below, semi-completed of course but who cares.  I am really trying hard to have this finished before the end of this month but the chances are, unfortunately based on reality – zilch. Come back to the site – and also apologies for not updating regularly, this is also bad on our part. 

Bid you well and Adios

 

RLC

 

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