Cheers for the responses guys.
@Dumped I will try my sine gen on it to look for the best amplitude, i am driving with about a 60nS wide pulse, but i did vary the frequency and found the amplitude best in the above picture.
@WW Sounds like an interesting experiment, i'm away from work for a couple of days, when i go back to it, i will try what you suggest.
Thank you for the picture of the field, this is pretty much what i am getting and the north end of the compass is also being pulled down vertically a little as well. The thing i found interesting is the coil with the cap had a sine imposed by the driven coil, yet the field was not reversing because the compass was still being pulled towards the center, the amount it was pulled also depended on the pulse delayed time between each pulse, but then so does the psu supply current so i guess that is just a more current more compass move situation.
This proves that by pulsing twice with a varying delay, the same coil and same pulse width, the coil can be made to draw more current purely dependant on the pulse delay in nS.So to clarify what i am saying again, if i pulse any coil for 60nS and the coil takes 50mA and i pulse again after a delayed period on the second pulse the coil will take more current, and this varyes dependant on the delay time. When i start increasing the supply voltage over 35volts the current drawn is large enough to produce strong EM pulses, it is these EM pulses that have destroyed FET's and other things in the past during similar experiments. I believe the speed that the current flows is accelerated, this explains why in my earlier experiments i had a larger second pulse, the second pulse was driven with the same width pulse but it was a lot taller, so what changed, it must have been the ability of the coil to accept energy from the psu.
If it is speed that has changed the slope of the current and mag field will be sharper, which i have pretty well proved anyway, and although i am using more current i may well have a net gain with the increased speed of change, the gain is 2 fold on the up leg and on the down leg
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