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Re: Crushing ferrite cores to make one big one?



Original poster: "Virtualgod" <mike.marcum-at-zoomtown-dot-com> 

  I would guess it wouldn't work that well at 60hz, too much of a distributed
air gap (would take a lot of turns on the primary/secondary to get a
particular reactance, too much copper losses and wasted power). Would make a
nice inductor for a dc resonant coil though.

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Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2004 2:01 PM
Subject: Crushing ferrite cores to make one big one?


 > Original poster: "Hydrogen18" <hydrogen18-at-hydrogen18-dot-com>
 >
 > I've been on the prowl for cheap transformer cores recently and something
 > just occured to me. I have TONs of ferrite cores, and they are amazingly
 > cheap to obtain in large weight. what If I just took and ground them up,
 > then say filled a 3 inch PVC pipe with them? I could use this as a core
for
 > a fairly large 60 Hz transformer couldnt I? Any thoughts on this somewhat
 > crazy idea?
 >
 >