Andrew,
NanoVNA-saver works fine on my Mac.
73
John
M0JBA
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On 12 Oct 2021, at 19:56, Andrew Kurtz via groups.io <adkurtz@...> wrote:
That program sounds wonderful! The only problem is that my computer is a Mac, and I bet it won¡¯t handle it. I know someone might say ¡°O just get Python and change XYZ while uploading ABC from Github¡.¡± and I might as well be listening to Greek. I have not yet succeeded in getting my nanoVNA data other than by hand-typing it into Excel because I can¡¯t get nanoVNAsaver to run. Any way to get your Coil program working on a Mac?
Andy
On Oct 11, 2021, at 7:00 PM, Brian Beezley <k6sti@...> wrote:
Andrew, my coil program might interest you. It calculates inductance and Q for solenoids made of solid or Litz wire. It models a number of wire alloys and form dielectrics, dielectric ribs or ridges, coil leads, and polygonal coil shapes. The program can automatically maximize coil Q while keeping inductance constant.
To validate accuracy, the documentation compares calculated values with hundreds of inductance and Q measurements made with an HP 4342A Q meter on dozens of coils of widely varying size and shape. For the coils from my own junk box, average error magnitude is 2% for inductance and 5% for Q.
The program runs in Windows and is free.
Brian
