Re: Current Limiting and Impedence

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Original poster: "Gerald  Reynolds" <gerryreynolds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

I'll reply to my own reply.

Maybe what I'm missing is:   if I increase the area to prevent saturation, 
the inductance goes back up so maybe this is self defeating.  I think it is 
time to play with some real numbers with gapless toroids and see what the 
inductance and saturatiion levels are.

Gerry R


> Original poster: "Gerald  Reynolds" <gerryreynolds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> I wonder if the real issue is physical size between the two designs.  If I 
> take a gapped ballast and remove the gap, the inductance goes up.  I will 
> need to reduce the number of turns to get back to the original inductance. 
> This will increase the volts per turn that will push the ballast closer to 
> saturation unless I increase the cross sectional area.