Yet another DIY Planar Bass

Status
This old topic is closed. If you want to reopen this topic, contact a moderator using the "Report Post" button.
Back to the drawing board

Have tried to fit the VC in the gap.
Ideally, the gap is 4 mm and the VC 1,5 mm, so there a little more than 1 mm margin on each side of the VC.
So for sure, I can make it fit, but there will be no margins in any direction.
And the reality isn't ideal along the 500 mm long gap.

The VC is 4 mm in height so Xmax is modest too, only 3 mm ((10 - 4)/2).
 
Don't panic!

New magnet assembly coming up:

MWSnap001.jpg


The iron in the gap has changed from 3x10 mm to 2x15 mm.

This gives 2 mm of additional space in the gap (6 mm - 1,5 mm) and a longer Xmax (15 - 4 / 2 = 5,5 mm).

This comes at a cost of a lower field:

MWSnap003.jpg


But only 35 % lower (new gap to the right):

MWSnap005.jpg
MWSnap004.jpg


I have also simulated 1,5x15 mm, that is a gap of 7 mm:
MWSnap006.jpg

It would work as well and is perhaps preferable, but that thin rods are hard to come by; you'll have to make them out of 1,5 mm steel sheets and then hard to get straight.
 
I will have take back the saturation theory.:bomb:

When I simulate this circuit I get the same non-linearities as in my other simulations:

MWSnap043.jpg
MWSnap044.jpg
MWSnap045.jpg


I think your simulation is flawed, could you please double check?
This looks for instance a little fishy at the steel to magnet surface:
An externally hosted image should be here but it was not working when we last tested it.

Maybe the properties for the magnet are set to the wrong values, it seems no saturate at 0,8 T?

It could of course be me that are wrong; nevertheless the design must be based on correct simulations whoever is "right".
 
Status
This old topic is closed. If you want to reopen this topic, contact a moderator using the "Report Post" button.