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Here's a question that stumped me back in the old slide rule days:
A coaxial cable, having an inner diameter of 0.0254mm (0.001") and using an insulator with a dielectric constant of 2.56, is yo have a characteristic impedance of 2,000 Ohms. What must be the outer conductor diameter? You guys can locate the appropriate method of calculation. -- Trevor Wilson www.rageaudio.com.au |
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On Tuesday, April 10, 2018 at 2:42:50 AM UTC-4, Trevor Wilson wrote:
Here's a question that stumped me back in the old slide rule days: A coaxial cable, having an inner diameter of 0.0254mm (0.001") and using an insulator with a dielectric constant of 2.56, is yo have a characteristic impedance of 2,000 Ohms. What must be the outer conductor diameter? You guys can locate the appropriate method of calculation. -- Trevor Wilson www.rageaudio.com.au It's pretty hard to get impedances above that of free space. (377 ohms) An air gap would be better. |
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On Tue, 10 Apr 2018 16:42:43 +1000, Trevor Wilson
wrote: Here's a question that stumped me back in the old slide rule days: A coaxial cable, having an inner diameter of 0.0254mm (0.001") and using an insulator with a dielectric constant of 2.56, is yo have a characteristic impedance of 2,000 Ohms. What must be the outer conductor diameter? https://www.rfcables.org/coax-calculator.html - Select inches. - Plug in any number for outside dia (D) trial an error. - Plug in 0.001 for inner diameter (d). - Plug in 2.56 for permittivity (er) (same as dielectric constant in this example). - Punch "calculate" I used 1,000,000 inches for outside diameter and still obtained only 776 ohms. 1,000,000,000 inches yielded 1035 ohms. I don't think it's going to make it to 2,000 ohms unless the coax cable is absurdly huge. -- Jeff Liebermann 150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com Santa Cruz CA 95060 http://802.11junk.com Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558 |
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On Tue, 10 Apr 2018 08:11:37 -0700, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
On Tue, 10 Apr 2018 16:42:43 +1000, Trevor Wilson wrote: Here's a question that stumped me back in the old slide rule days: A coaxial cable, having an inner diameter of 0.0254mm (0.001") and using an insulator with a dielectric constant of 2.56, is yo have a characteristic impedance of 2,000 Ohms. What must be the outer conductor diameter? https://www.rfcables.org/coax-calculator.html - Select inches. - Plug in any number for outside dia (D) trial an error. - Plug in 0.001 for inner diameter (d). - Plug in 2.56 for permittivity (er) (same as dielectric constant in this example). - Punch "calculate" I used 1,000,000 inches for outside diameter and still obtained only 776 ohms. 1,000,000,000 inches yielded 1035 ohms. I don't think it's going to make it to 2,000 ohms unless the coax cable is absurdly huge. Almost sounds like an OLD ("slide rule") homework problem.... Jonesy |
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On 11/04/2018 8:10 AM, Allodoxaphobia wrote:
On Tue, 10 Apr 2018 08:11:37 -0700, Jeff Liebermann wrote: On Tue, 10 Apr 2018 16:42:43 +1000, Trevor Wilson wrote: Here's a question that stumped me back in the old slide rule days: A coaxial cable, having an inner diameter of 0.0254mm (0.001") and using an insulator with a dielectric constant of 2.56, is yo have a characteristic impedance of 2,000 Ohms. What must be the outer conductor diameter? https://www.rfcables.org/coax-calculator.html - Select inches. - Plug in any number for outside dia (D) trial an error. - Plug in 0.001 for inner diameter (d). - Plug in 2.56 for permittivity (er) (same as dielectric constant in this example). - Punch "calculate" I used 1,000,000 inches for outside diameter and still obtained only 776 ohms. 1,000,000,000 inches yielded 1035 ohms. I don't think it's going to make it to 2,000 ohms unless the coax cable is absurdly huge. Almost sounds like an OLD ("slide rule") homework problem.... **Correct. It was. I thought someone would have come up with an answer before now. It's not an overly difficult calculation. -- Trevor Wilson www.rageaudio.com.au |
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Trevor Wilson wrote: Here's a question that stumped me back in the old slide rule days: A coaxial cable, having an inner diameter of 0.0254mm (0.001") and using an insulator with a dielectric constant of 2.56, is yo have a characteristic impedance of 2,000 Ohms. What must be the outer conductor diameter? Almost sounds like an OLD ("slide rule") homework problem.... **Correct. It was. I thought someone would have come up with an answer before now. It's not an overly difficult calculation. Well, just for grins... using the formula Z0 = 138 log10 ((Dd/Dc)*(1/sqrt(eR))) it seems to transform to Dd = 10^(Z0/138) * sqrt(eR) * Dc with Z0 = 2000, eR = 2.56, and Dc = .001, we'd get approximately Dd = 10^14.5 * 1.6 * .001 Dd = 1.6 * 10^11.5 Dd = 5.1 * 10^11 or about half a trillion inches. That's if I didn't screw up something using my slide rule (yes, I have a nice 10" Hemmi here at my desk) or slip a decimal point somewhere along the way. This seems a bit impractical for a coaxial cable. The transmission-line cutoff frequency would be ridiculously low, and construction of a matching section would be, well, interesting, to say the least. And, I rather doubt that the classic formula is actually applicable for impedances (and diameters) this large. A solid cylinder of dielectric material this large would probably insist on collapsing under its own gravitational self-attraction, leaving you with a neutron star or a black hole. |
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On 11/04/2018 9:42 AM, Dave Platt wrote:
In article , Trevor Wilson wrote: Here's a question that stumped me back in the old slide rule days: A coaxial cable, having an inner diameter of 0.0254mm (0.001") and using an insulator with a dielectric constant of 2.56, is yo have a characteristic impedance of 2,000 Ohms. What must be the outer conductor diameter? Almost sounds like an OLD ("slide rule") homework problem.... **Correct. It was. I thought someone would have come up with an answer before now. It's not an overly difficult calculation. Well, just for grins... using the formula Z0 = 138 log10 ((Dd/Dc)*(1/sqrt(eR))) it seems to transform to Dd = 10^(Z0/138) * sqrt(eR) * Dc with Z0 = 2000, eR = 2.56, and Dc = .001, we'd get approximately Dd = 10^14.5 * 1.6 * .001 Dd = 1.6 * 10^11.5 Dd = 5.1 * 10^11 or about half a trillion inches. That's if I didn't screw up something using my slide rule (yes, I have a nice 10" Hemmi here at my desk) or slip a decimal point somewhere along the way. This seems a bit impractical for a coaxial cable. The transmission-line cutoff frequency would be ridiculously low, and construction of a matching section would be, well, interesting, to say the least. And, I rather doubt that the classic formula is actually applicable for impedances (and diameters) this large. A solid cylinder of dielectric material this large would probably insist on collapsing under its own gravitational self-attraction, leaving you with a neutron star or a black hole. **According to my calculations (performed ca. 1973) the answer is around 1.59 X 10^20 inches. My instructor ticked my answer as the correct one. Or, for a more useful figure, 427 light years. That's one big coax. A few hundred Metres would likely require more mass in it's construction than exists in our galaxy (maybe the entire universe). I haven't tried to work that out. -- Trevor Wilson www.rageaudio.com.au |
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