For the life of me, I cannot figure out how I got it to scan and lock the first time I fixed pin 12. It just worked when I turned it on the first time. Since then, I have made 3 more coils, only one that worked equally well as the first and now I can't get either to lock and follow!
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I'll probably try, as you suggested, a simple pll on my solderless breadboard and see what it does. I'm also wondering if something else on my TW VIC circuit is burned out somewhere in the PLL circuit (I previously burned out some IC's when I shorted the feedback wire to the WFC power wire). I'm not sure that the gate pulse and/or duty cycle works correctly either.
So frustrating. It seemed like I was almost there.
On a side note, on my original 5 strand bifilar, I wound a new primary around it to step up the original 5 strands. With the extra 2 strands I now had, I hooked them up in series with the strands I used as chokes. It seems to make a noticeable improvement in production. It also seems to corelate to Meyer's Patent on page 10-12 in hooking up chokes in series.
TS
