Re: Over Saturation?

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Original poster: "gtyler" <gtyler-at-drummond-dot-org.za> 

Might be U.S. there, but here it is South Africa!

George
....
 > Do you mean area in meters^2?  (This is the US, hence the meters but
 > they are all the same of course.)
 >
 > Flux density in gauss or Tesla?  I'm used to using core area in cm^2
 > and gauss (I'm an old timer) and haven't tried conversion of your
 > formula.
 >
 > Final point is you should include the allowable flux densities for
good
 > transformer "iron" and also for typical ferrite core materials.  see a
 > lot of reports here of guys winding NST protection "chokes" by
wrapping
 > a few turns of wire around a loop core or something like that.
Doesn't
 > take much calculation to see that the core isn't doing anything.
 >
 > Ed
 >
 >
 >