Power Delivery:

To safely utilize the power from a standard 120 volt AC outlet, we will use a transformer to step down
the voltage to 10 volts, the voltage used by the inductive plate. This will allow up to a 7 amp current
through the inductive wires within. Installing a 1 amp fuse to the primary side of the transformer and a
10 amp fuse to the secondary side will prevent us from frying our prototype. Too high a current could
generate enough heat to ignite a fire on our wooden frame.
To measure the power delivered to the induction plate, we will connect an ammeter in parallel to each
of the wires in the induction plate and do some computations to get the powers of each wire. This will
reveal how much power from the wall is actually making it from the wall to our plate. Ideally, the sum of
the complex powers used by the inductive wires should equal the power provided from by source (the
wall socket). Of course, our prototype will not be ideal; we will lose power in the transformer and from
the wires themselves.
The power delivered to the transceiver can be attained by connecting a voltmeter in series to the
transceiver. Simple power analysis using the impedance of the receiver coils will allow us to determine
the power delivered to the transceiver. The power delivered to the transceiver will be a small
percentage of the power delivered by the plate. This is because the receiver coils absorb only a small
fraction of the total magnetic flux created by the induction plate.