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Joe Gwinn
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It's been a long time, but I'm tooling up to design and build a small
impulse magnetizer, based on an old patent (US 4,258,405) done up with
SCRs and silicon diodes (versus the original ignitrons). The
production quantity is one - it's for my use.
This circuit will generate a single half-sine pulse about ten
milliseconds wide and about 5,000 amps peak (if caps are at full
charge) through a small but heavy copper coil whenever the Fire!
button is pressed.
The pulse has to stay within the surge capability of the SCRs and
diodes. The most likely SCR/Diode block is an Infineon model
TT190N18SOF with one SCR wired to act as a diode. The capacitor bank
will be a number of CDE type 7P102V330N042 photoflash capacitors (1000
uF, 330 Vdc) in parallel.
For this, SPICE will be very useful, so I downloaded SuperSpice and
installed it under 64-bit Win 10, which is running in a Parallels 15
Pro partition under MacOS. Installation went smoothly, and yielded a
SuperSpice.lnk file on the desktop. Clicking on the .lnk icon yielded
the following error message:
"\\Mac\Home\Desktop\SuperSpice.lnk
The application has failed to start because its side-by-side
configuration is incorrect. Please see the application event log or
use the command-line sxstrace.exe tool for more detail."
The above warning is presented whenever one attempts to launch the
newly-installed SuperSpice. The same warning is generated by both
32-bit and 64-bit versions. I could not find the relevant application
log (probably disabled by default), but in any event I don't know that
I would know what to make of such a log anyway.
This may be an only-Kevin question, but does anyone have any idea how
to solve this? This is the first Windows program I've met that balks
at running in this setup. (I'm typing this message using Forte Agent
running in that setup.)
Joe Gwinn
impulse magnetizer, based on an old patent (US 4,258,405) done up with
SCRs and silicon diodes (versus the original ignitrons). The
production quantity is one - it's for my use.
This circuit will generate a single half-sine pulse about ten
milliseconds wide and about 5,000 amps peak (if caps are at full
charge) through a small but heavy copper coil whenever the Fire!
button is pressed.
The pulse has to stay within the surge capability of the SCRs and
diodes. The most likely SCR/Diode block is an Infineon model
TT190N18SOF with one SCR wired to act as a diode. The capacitor bank
will be a number of CDE type 7P102V330N042 photoflash capacitors (1000
uF, 330 Vdc) in parallel.
For this, SPICE will be very useful, so I downloaded SuperSpice and
installed it under 64-bit Win 10, which is running in a Parallels 15
Pro partition under MacOS. Installation went smoothly, and yielded a
SuperSpice.lnk file on the desktop. Clicking on the .lnk icon yielded
the following error message:
"\\Mac\Home\Desktop\SuperSpice.lnk
The application has failed to start because its side-by-side
configuration is incorrect. Please see the application event log or
use the command-line sxstrace.exe tool for more detail."
The above warning is presented whenever one attempts to launch the
newly-installed SuperSpice. The same warning is generated by both
32-bit and 64-bit versions. I could not find the relevant application
log (probably disabled by default), but in any event I don't know that
I would know what to make of such a log anyway.
This may be an only-Kevin question, but does anyone have any idea how
to solve this? This is the first Windows program I've met that balks
at running in this setup. (I'm typing this message using Forte Agent
running in that setup.)
Joe Gwinn