Re: low-cost 1800-amp heating source

In article <4f0c0a79f5tonyw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Tony Williams <tonyw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

If you were to leave the Pri open circuit, connect a
voltage source to the Sec, and turn it up until the
current waveform had nice wide flat tops then the
measured Ipeak could be a reasonable estimate of the
polarising DC amps needed to saturate the core.

Oh bum! Wrong way round.

Drive the Sec from a resistive source until the
voltage is seen to have nice wide flat tops.
Then measure the peak of the current waveform.

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Tony Williams.
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