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VIC-5 phase-locked loop

With these chokes and this cell, where is the resonance — and can this PLL reach it, hold it, and build the rise inside each gate?

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The parts

The water capacitor the loop has to find the resonance of.

What is in the cell.

The choke on the positive side.

What the charging choke is wound on.

The choke on the return side. About this part.

What the blocking choke is wound on.

Between the VCO's driver and the chokes, if there is one.

The drive

kHz

Where the VCO sits with no correction — the middle of its range.

V

The peak voltage applied across the loop — after the transformer, if there is one.

Hertz per volt of control voltage.

Volts per radian of phase error.

kΩ

The lag-lead filter's series resistor.

kΩ

The resistor in series with the filter capacitor.

µF

The filter capacitor.

Hz

The slow gate switching the locked drive on and off.

%

How much of each gate period the drive is let through.

Separate, or on one core with fields aiding or opposing.

How much of one choke's flux threads the other.

From the parts

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Before it can run

  • Choose the charging choke.
  • Negative Choke - 100 Turns AWG18 is recorded by its 100 turns; choose a core for it so the inductance can be worked out.
  • Choose the cell.
  • R Series resistance 0.09615 Ω

    Series resistance, added up: Negative Choke - 100 Turns AWG18 0.0962 Ω. Wiring and connections are not counted.

  • No water chosen, so the cell is taken as full of distilled water at 20 °C. Pick a water to change that.