Re: OLTC - Split core inductors

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Original poster: "Ed Phillips by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <evp-at-pacbell-dot-net>

Tesla list wrote:
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> Original poster: "Bert Pool by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
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> Terry,
> You might want to look at using a "metglass" core.  This stuff makes for
> incredible inductor cores, and is much more readily available than just a
> few years ago.  This might allow the design of a more reasonable size
> inductor with the saturation characteristics you need.
> Bert Pool

	I'm not sure how much better those new cores would really be for
Terry's purposes.  They do have a lot less "iron loss" but don't
necessarily work at  higher flux densities.

Ed