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Re: Self-built power transformer
What I meant is, it's wound on a solid iron core and placed in a pipe to
contain
the oil and provide magnetic coupling.
Tesla List wrote:
> Original Poster: ESchulz531-at-aol-dot-com
>
> Hi,
> Your not using a pipe are you? The flux would be way to high on
> the little amount of iron you have and would probably saturate below
> 30 volts unless you added a lot more turns in series. Since the flux
> wouldn't have a closed path your mutual inductance will be really low.
> This means that you will have an efficiency less than 25%. If you
> want to make a good/decent HV transformer get a real transformer
> core.
>
> I am not trying to bite your head off I am just trying to stop
you from
> making that pretty smoke and wondering why it didn't work.
>
> Erik Schulz
>
> > Original Poster: Doug Brunner <dabrunner-at-earthlink-dot-net>
> >
> > It's currently not a closed core. However, I can probably put
something in.
> > One
> > idea I want to check: it'll already be in a iron pipe (to contain the
oil).
> > If
> > it's got good magnetic coupling with the end caps, will it work OK?
> >
> > Tesla List wrote:
> >
> > > Original Poster: "D.C. Cox" <DR.RESONANCE-at-next-wave-dot-net>
> > >
> > > to: Doug
> > >
> > > I assume your core is a closed core -- if you try this with a straight
> > core
> > > and no closed magnetic path your losses will be horrible.
> > >
> > > DR.RESONANCE-at-next-wave-dot-net
> > >
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