
37Experiment 2: A Real Radio
meter won’t respond to such a high-frequency voltage, even when you set it
to measure AC. Still, the LED tells you all you need to know.
TRANSFORMER MATH
Whichever coil you attach to the output of IC2 is the primary coil in this
experiment, and whichever coil drives the LED is the secondary coil. We will
use some abbreviations to write a formula that you may want to refer to
later:
• TP: turns of wire in the primary
• TS: turns of wire in the secondary
• VP: voltage applied to the primary
• VS: voltage measured in the secondary
And now, the formula:
TP / TS = VP / VS
In other words, if the number of turns in the primary r ...