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Default Antenna Simulation in LTspice

On 2/27/2013 11:40 PM, Tim Williams wrote:
I expect if you reflect the CT secondary stuff (don't forget Lsec) back to
the primary, your answer will appear. Offhand I can't reason out which
sum of L and C makes the resonance, but it's a four pole series-parallel
resonant circuit, analysis should lay it bare.


Are you sure about this? When you say to reflect the secondary back to
the primary that means the primary inductance would be doubled? I
believe the coupling of the two coils means they are one and the same
for the purposes of the circuit analysis, no?

You can't reason which sum of L and C makes the resonance and I can't
either. The calculation is off by about 5% and I can't explain that. I
can explain a null at about 290 kHz. That is the resonance of the
secondary with the secondary capacitance. I can't explain the other
peak at 363 kHz at all. A higher frequency would imply a smaller L
and/or C. How do you combine them to produce that? Consider the two
caps to be in series???

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Rick