Re: Mains Current Monitoring

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• Subject: Re: Mains Current Monitoring
• From: "Malcolm Watts" <MALCOLM-at-directorate.wnp.ac.nz> (by way of Terry Fritz <twf-at-verinet-dot-com>)
• Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 23:34:19 -0700
• Approved: twf-at-verinet-dot-com

Hi Jim,

<snip>
> Ferrite saturates at a very low flux which is ok in RF designs where the
> frequency is high, and the flux isn't too high, but not so good at power
> line frequencies. Tape wound silicon steel would be preferred, possibly
> a powdered metal.

Do you have any comparative figures for silicon steel and ferrite 
with the same cross-sectional area (mean length doesn't count unless 
the difference is *huge*) ?   I have reasons for wanting to know 
this. Perhaps I should build a curve tracer.

Thanks in advance,
Malcolm

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