Re: Ferrite Cores - Where's the Gap? (fwd)

[Steven Roys <sroys@xxxxxxxx>]

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Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2004 23:19:19 -0600
From: Gomez Addams <gomez@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: High Voltage list <hvlist@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Ferrite Cores - Where's the Gap? (fwd)

On Apr 4, 2004, at 10:58 PM, High Voltage list wrote:

> From: Matthew Smith <matt@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: High Voltage list <hvlist@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Ferrite Cores - Where's the Gap?
>
> Hi All
>
> Flyback transformers have gapped cores, yes?  Why is it that not one
> core that I
> have lying around has anything between the two halves of the core?
> Does the
> fact that they are not one single piece count as an air gap?

  Why would flybacks have an air gap?  I have never noticed an air gap
in flybacks
either, so I guess the evidence before you gives you the answer - they
don't have
one!

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