Re: Toroid cores for GDTs

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Original poster: Steve Ward <steve.ward@xxxxxxxxx>

Skip,

While i havent had direct experience with buying GDTs, i have heard of
others who have bought GDTs and their performance was rather
insufficient for SSTC work.  They had too much leakage inductance
mainly because the cores were small, requiring many many turns of
wire.Also they did not interleave the wiring, but rather 2 seperate
windings were wound on the E-I core.

Winding a GDT on a toroid, with a twisted group of wires is very easy
to do, and the results are usually very good.  You can even make your
own customized shielded wire packs for even higher coupling between
windings.

Steve

On 1/25/06, Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Original poster: Skip Malley <skip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Silly question!!  Why not just buy a gate drive transformer?  It is a
> fairly standard part.  What is your intended circuit?  What is your
> peak to peak driving voltage and frequency?
>
> Skip
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> At 01:33 AM 1/25/2006, you wrote:
> >Original poster: "Herwig Roscher" <herwig.roscher@xxxxxx>
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> >Jan Wagner, Steve Conner, Steve Ward,
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> >Thank you very much for your advice. It will help me to design the
> >correct GDTs of course.
> >
> >
> >
> >Bye             Herwig
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