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   --- -.dotat to fizzbintuesday@that-google-mail-dom   
   Re: transformer core material   
   27 Aug 21 12:29:11   
   
   From: hwabnig@.-   
      
   On Tue, 24 Aug 2021 04:44:02 -0400, "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?   
   An aluminium core would act as a short circuit.   
   Will heat up and eventually melt.   
      
   w.   
      
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