<div>Why not rectangular, say 4" x 30" to cover the threshold of a door?</div>
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<div>Wes<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 12:26, Robert Bruninga <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bruninga@usna.edu">bruninga@usna.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Biggest RFID Coil yet.<br><br>Today, I doubled the size again to a 23" square coil and it<br>also<br>
works well. Resonance was not as peaked, but its vertical<br>detection range was<br>still about 12" and the outside-the-coil range was about 5"<br>giving an overall<br>HotSpot of nearly 33" across. THe advantage of this larger coil<br>
is that a moving<br>tag is in the coil longer and therefore can be detected at a<br>faster speed.<br>Even throwing a card across the coil Frysbee style would always<br>detect.<br><br>Shucks, in two more doublings of the size, it will be big enough<br>
(3' by 7') that might surround a door! I cannot imagine that it<br>could possibly work because the field will be so weak... But who<br>knows..<br><br>Bob, WB4APR<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Wes<br>---<br>God help those who do not help themselves.<br>