User talk:Msiddalingaiah

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[edit] Images

Thanks for uploading Image:NPN Colpitts oscillator collector coil.png. I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag. Could you add one to let us know its copyright status? (You can use gfdl if you release it under the GFDL, or fairuse if you claim fair use, etc.) If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know where you got the images (on my talk page)and I'll tag them for you. Thanks so much,

BrokenSegue 03:37, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Math markup

Just a heads up.

There's no need for images of most mathematical formulae because the wiki can do math markup see m:Help:Formula User:Zeimusu

[edit] Electronics contribution

Hi,

The content so far is quite impressive. I have a lot of experience in both analog and digital electronics. I'd like to contribute, but I'm not sure where I should focus my efforts.

There's a fair amount to be done wrt oscillators and filters.

Any suggestions? - Madhu

Just start editing! Here are some things I was going to work on but either no motivation or I just don't know enough about them:
- Omegatron 22:56, Feb 16, 2005 (UTC)
Excellent work with the oscillator articles. Did you already know all this or are you adding it as you learn? I'd like to know how a crystal oscillator is (induced? forced?) to pick a specific vibration frequency, considering the crystal can vibrate in many different modes and harmonics. - Omegatron 23:17, Mar 28, 2005 (UTC)
Thanks! I learned much of the oscillator theory many, many years ago when I worked as a summer intern at NASA/Goddard. My mentor was a highly insightful, very old school engineer by the name of Leonard Kleinberg. He holds many patents on several novel oscillator designs. One of his best designs can be found here It took me years to really appreciate all of the math he regularly threw at me, but some of it finally sunk in. I've been refining it over the years, Wikipedia gave me a good a place to publish and preserve it. I had to re-derive much of it as I didn't keep any notes. The derivations you see are all my work, I have not seen it published anywhere else.
Crystal oscillators can be tricky. I've spent many years working on overtone oscillators that didn't work! The answer is quite simple. Crystal oscillators are no different than any other oscillator. Oscillation will ocurr at a frequency where phase is zero and gain is greater than one (Barkhausen criteria). Stated differently, oscillation will ocurr at a frequency where total resistance is zero. In general, the losses increase with frequency, so the fundamental is the most likely mode. If you want to pick a specific overtone, add an LC tank that adds phase at all other frequencies or change the circuit to produce negative resistance only at a particular overtone. I've had success both ways, but one of the easiest ways is to build a standard LC oscillator near the overtone you want and put the crystal in series with the feedback loop. The crystal exhibits wild swings in reactance (and phase) near overtones, so the oscillator frequency shifts to make the crystal happy. Of course, you have to be close to an overtone or you will get the LC frequency, which isn't interesting. Madhu 02:39, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Neat. That makes 90% sense, and the rest I will stare at some circuit diagrams to get. Complete understanding is on the tip of my brain...
As for keeping notes, teaching, and learning, I've found wikipedia to be a sort of "communal notebook". I try to write things here as I learn them, and, when I invariably forget something, it is easy to find where I wrote it down. At the same time, other people can read and learn from it (and fix things I got wrong!) Also, one of the best ways to learn something is to put it into words for someone else to read. - Omegatron 04:28, Mar 30, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Modular electronics diagrams

What do you think of this?

Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#Modular_electronics_diagrams - Omegatron 00:57, Mar 6, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Helical antenna

Hello,

I have a question for you about one of your edits to the helical antenna article. The gain formula you entered seems to give rather high values, e.g. with the following setup:

f = 3GHz → λ = 0.1m
N = 10
C = 0.1m
S = 0.1m

you get:

D_o \simeq 15 N \frac{C^2 S}{\lambda^3} \rarr D_o \simeq 15\times10 \frac{0.1^2 \times 0.1}{0.1^3} = 150 dB

whereas most helical antennae I've seen on the market have gains in the 13-16 dB range. Is there something wrong with the formula, or just my use of it?

Whitepaw 13:14, 2005 May 9 (UTC)

I think the equation is right, at least it's the same as the one found at this website: http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Hangar/8092/ch3.html
I think you have a bad value for S, which is the spacing between turns. The numbers above results in a straight wire, I think?? Also the directive gain is not in dB, I should probably have mentioned that in the article... Madhu 22:14, 10 May 2005 (UTC)


[edit] Ratings for commercial generators

Hi! It sounds like you might have worked the power industry, so I had a quick question: I toured a local coal fired plant here in the DC area. They had three generators, two were operational, one was offline at the time. Each was a 200 MW unit, surprisingly small, IMHO. Anyway, I think the output voltage at the generator terminals was something like 14 kV, but I can't remember, I could be wrong. If it is 14 kV, then the current would be around 14200 AMPS! That seems like a lot of current. If it is correct, the wire in the windings would have to be around 3 inches or so. Do I have my numbers wrong? The voltage couldn't be much more, even if it was double, that's still some very thick wire!! What do the windings look like in that size generator?? Can't be many turns... Madhu 19:33, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

Sounds about right - generators of that size are usually wound for a medium voltage (around 15 kV up to about 30 kV), and so the currents are very high. The machines are large so there's lots of room for very heavy copper windings; often these machines are cooled by water coils in the stator or by circulating hydrogen gas in the generator enclosure. The windings are made of something called "Roebel bars", which is a rectangular section of copper with individual strands insulated from each other (for eddy currents), and the whole covered with insulation rated for the terminal voltage of the machine. Large generators don't need many turns on each pole because the poles are large; there's a lot of flux linked and so each turn produces more voltage - there could be only 3-4 bars in each slot for a 15-kV class machine. The company ABB developed a concept called "Powerformer" in which high-voltage cable was used to make the windings; this allowed them to build a generator that directly produces transmission voltage (115,000 V or higher) but so far they've only built a few units. Utiltities are very cautious and the technology is still very new. 200 MW is not the largest rating in the world but is still pretty big - in Manitoba where I live, the utility doesn't have any single generator as large as 200 MW in a total installed capacity of nearly 5000 MW. Utilities often would prefer to have 3 -200 MW units instead of one 600 for reliability reasons. --Wtshymanski 15:39, 4 September 2005 (UTC)


[edit] New category

Based on your user page, this may be of interest to you: [[Category:Wikipedians who are pilots]]. Best regards, CHAIRBOY (☎) 17:04, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Helicopter rotor

Wow! Thanks for the history and generally helping to build this page. A pointer - when you include a link with a space in the name, you don't have to include an underscore. Just leave a space; Wiki will do the right thing! Benet Allen 20:06, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks! Much of the history about Cierva is from memory, I read it many years ago, so it could use some expert review. Yeah, I often copy links from the URL textfield in my browser, so the underscore shows up :-( We really need a nice 3D drawing of a rotor head, swash plate, hinges, links etc. I'm not much of an artist, though... Madhu 00:56, 26 December 2005 (UTC)


[edit] Quotes

Hi Can I steal your quotes ? - CPES 04:03, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

Well, they really aren't my quotes, so I can't claim any ownership. I won't complain if you include a link to my website :-) Madhu 00:59, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
I saw this quote "An engineer is someone who will spend 3 hours figuring out how to solve a 2 hour problem in one hour" here and so I thought you would appreciate this one I heard a while back:
A half a glass of water sits on a table. An optimist sees the glass as half full, a pessimist sees the glass as half empty, an engineer sees that the glass is twice as big as it needs to be. Alfred Centauri 00:43, 15 March 2007 (UTC)