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Old 9th Nov 2019, 7:23 pm   #12
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Default Re: Building a Radio-Goniometer - inductance values?

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Originally Posted by merlinmaxwell View Post
I assume the coil pairs are set at the Helmholtz distance, 1/2 the diameter apart for an even field, that would, I assume, need a tweak for rectangular coils.
You want reasonably uniform fields at least over a length equal to the swept volume of the sense coil, or else you suffer some distortion of the angular scale.

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