Thane Heins Perepiteia.

[notaspicegirl]

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References

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Lloyd H. Dixon Jr.
Eddy Current Losses in Transformer Windings and Circuit Wiring
Copyright 2003 Texas Instruments Incorporated.
http://focus.ti.com/lit/ml/slup197/slup197.pdf

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[JustMe]

Diagrams, as requested:

[CRANKYpants]

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Thane

[JustMe]

That's great Thane!

Are you feeling closer to having something where your work can be seen in an application of some sort?  I think that's really going to be key in getting to any next significant stage.

Is Luc still working with you? He's been rather quiet!

[OUmon]

References

[1] ? [6]
Lloyd H. Dixon Jr.
Eddy Current Losses in Transformer Windings and Circuit Wiring
Copyright 2003 Texas Instruments Incorporated.
http://focus.ti.com/lit/ml/slup197/slup197.pdf

I think the issue you'll need to address if you want to apply Dixon's work to this is the question of frequency. I don't think you are operating at frequencies high enough for the skin effect to be an issue. If you refer to Dixon's equation 6, the skin depth in cm is given by 7.5/sqrt(f) and that works out to 0.024 cm at 100kHz, and so can be significant in the Dixon applications (switching power supplies that operate up at those frequencies). However, you are operating in the range of 100 - 1000 Hz, which would give you a skin depth of about 2 to 5 mm. Your wire thicknesses are way thinner than that so there will be no appreciable skin effect at all as far as I can see. FWIW.