Re: White screen
Well, with the H version, the solder on the LCD's ribbon cable can sometimes crack and cause the white screen. I had this on one of my units. You need to VERY carefully run a thin wire under the metal
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Larry Rothman
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#29814
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Re: Measuring Air Capacitor losses
#general_vna
Excel does allow you to curve fit and then find an extrapolated value. It will provide you with the curve fitted formula.
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F4WCV
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#29813
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Re: Measuring Air Capacitor losses
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Your antivirus program is probably keeping you from opening the ZIP file. Send the file to https://www.virustotal.com/gui/home/url to assure yourself that it's virus-free and then disable your
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Brian Beezley
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#29812
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Re: Measuring Air Capacitor losses
#general_vna
I can open the above page but the Coil.Zip keeps say connection reset while loading. I think that would depend on the crystal set builder. I was active on the now *defunct 'The Radioboard' crystal
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Mikek
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#29811
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Re: Measuring Air Capacitor losses
#general_vna
1. Use this program to calculate coil inductance and Q. It models skin effect, proximity effect, and more subtle effects for both solid and Litz wire: http://ham-radio.com/k6sti/coil.htm Results agree
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Brian Beezley
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#29810
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Re: Measuring Air Capacitor losses
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That is true in some circumstances, it depends on the inductor in question and the frequency. For a 240uh air core inductor at BCB frequencies, I doubt silver would beat litz, because of skin effect.
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Mikek
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#29809
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Re: Measuring Air Capacitor losses
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Hello Mikek, From my point of view it will be better to use thick silver-plated copper wire for high-Q inductors. -- Bert W
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Bert W
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#29808
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Re: White screen
I'm having the same problem with my H4 and started exactly the same way! I tried with a different FW but the same results... So it would be nice to know if someone resolved this issue successfully?
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Vuk
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#29807
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Re: Measuring Air Capacitor losses
#general_vna
Absolutely, the form I showed in the picture uses a styrene form, styrene is high on the list of low loss materials. I was borrowing someone else's time and lathe work or I would had the form turned
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Mikek
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#29806
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Re: Measuring Air Capacitor losses
#general_vna
Coil forms contribute dielectric losses. It's fairly common to see coils that use plastic rods or strips rods to keep the windings appropriately spaced while minimizing dielectric losses.
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Lou W7HV
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#29805
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Re: Measuring Air Capacitor losses
#general_vna
Yes, the capacitor loses will be much less than the inductor. A very good air cap can have Qs from 8,000 to 20,000. A really good Q for an inductor is 1400, but some have built BCB inductors near
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Mikek
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#29804
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Re: Measuring Air Capacitor losses
#general_vna
My observation/experience with inductors that large (~240uH) at those frequencies is caused by two effects: 1) skin effect 2) proximity effect. The latter being less known about yet a significant
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Charlie Thompson
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#29803
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Re: Measuring Air Capacitor losses
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That is why I have the question, from my quick reading of the paper, it seemed like the author separated them, but I agree with you, at resonance you can't separate them. By extrapolate to zero, here
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Mikek
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#29802
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Re: Measuring Air Capacitor losses
#general_vna
If you use a resonant circuit to find the Q the loss with be combination of both the L and C. You can only separate it if you can independently measure the loss of the coil or capacitor without the
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F4WCV
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#29801
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White screen
The NanoVNA-H suddenly has a white screen. I am able to use a PC and it seems to be working. This afternoon was going to see if I could work my way thru the problem and the battery was dead. After
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cemick@...
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#29800
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Re: Measuring Air Capacitor losses
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Well, it won't be that low over the whole range. But I have coils that reach 1400Q of the top of my head. I'll post a picture and some graphs of measurements made. Mikek
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Mikek
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#29799
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Re: Measuring Air Capacitor losses
#general_vna
What type of 240 uH inductor will you be using to get such a low R over that frequency range? Roger
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Roger Need
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#29797
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Measuring Air Capacitor losses
#general_vna
Hi all, On another group there is a discussion on Q meters, then we went to the loss the air cap added to the loss of the inductor during measurement. So all we know is the combined loss not the
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Mikek
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#29796
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SAA2-N device driver on Win 7
When I plug unit in, device manager says it's a CDC-ACM Demo device. Does not appear under Ports (COM &LPT) What is the problem? Works ok under win 10 as a usb extensible host controller and QT
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F4WCV
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#29795
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Re: Epoch Times spam
I should suspect that with a techinically savy group, someone would have pointed out that the it is easy to spoof the origin of an email and just because a piece of spam says it is from a source is no
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Jim Altman, W4UCK
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#29794
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