Since my last blog post I have created a custom coil. It is a 14cm coil with 7 turns of 0.4mm enamelled copper wire.
For the purpose of finding the correct value of the filter capacitor, I ordered capacitors in the range from 20pF to 100nF as specified in the documentation.
I started testing with a 100pF filter capacitor. With this capacitor I get a reading but the sensitivity is very low.
I find calculating Rp_MIN and Rp_MAX rather complex and I am still working on that. After this I have to calculate the correct filter capacitor.
There were some holidays so I could not work on this project very much.
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