Re: [TCML] Short Circuit.

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It would need to be hollow
Chip.

Carl Noggle <cn@xxxxx> wrote:

>For an inductor core, you will need to make it from thin laminations or 
>bundles wires so that the core doesn't act as a secondary coil with a 
>huge current step-up, which will eat power and cause your core to 
>overheat.  It's probably best to get a core from an old transformer and 
>use that.  If you take apart a burned-out NST the coils will be wound on 
>a straight bar that can be separated from the rest of the core, and you 
>could use that.  At least that was the way they were made when I was a 
>pup, which is ancient history.
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>> Inductors don't burn off power as resistors do, so cooling won't be an
>> issue unless you have highly resistive wire...
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