RE: K Factor & Mutual Inductance

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• Date: Sun, 06 Apr 1997 19:56:21 -0500
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Subject: 
            RE: K Factor & Mutual Inductance
       Date: 
            Mon, 7 Apr 1997 08:34:37 +1200
       From: 
            "Malcolm Watts" <MALCOLM-at-directorate.wnp.ac.nz>
Organization: 
            Wellington Polytechnic, NZ
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Heinz,
       You can't saturate air. In the case of a ferromagnetic cored 
transformer, the core is normally operated in a reasonably linear 
region of the B-H curve so L doesn't change much there either. Things 
change considerably for shunted cores though.

Malcolm

>         Heinz Wahl <hwahl-at-jtc-campus.moric-dot-org>
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> I agree Ed, but what happens to k as Lp gets saturated? If Ls core is
> larger and the area of saturation is in a fraction of that
> core, as in a TC, wouldn't there be a point of diminishing return for
> the energy applied? Couldn't that be misconstrued as a
> bend in the upper end of Lm & k?
> 
> Heinz

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