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|    Tom Del Rosso to Jeroen Belleman    |
|    Re: transformer core material    |
|    25 Aug 21 22:25:13    |
      From: fizzbintuesday@that-google-mail-domain.com              Jeroen Belleman wrote:       > Tom Del Rosso wrote:       >> AIUI you use iron cores for low frequency and ferrite for high       >> frequency because ferrite doesn't get magnetized, so why couldn't       >> aluminum do the same?       >       > You *want* a transformer core to be easily magnetized! You don't       > want it to *stay* magnetized when the current goes to zero.              Of course that's what I meant. It has to conduct a magnetic field but it       must not fight the induced field when it reverses.              I asked about the behavior of ferrite vs aluminum.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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