Laminated Cores - Any difference in Being Parallel or Perpendicular?

[rukiddingme]

Thanks for the comments.

Yes, that is exactly my problem. Cutting out the frame like shapes is prohibitively expensive, but rapping strips around a wooden form to create the shape is doable.

Looking at TinselKoala  comment, there is not that much difference between the two as far as one being superior to the other eddy wise, if I am reading it correctly.

If the consensus is that there is little difference between the two, I will proceed with the strips wrapped around a wooden form.

[gyulasun]

Hi Folks,

Yes I also think there is very little difference between the two solutions wrt eddy currents. In both cases flux can proceed in individual hence narrow cross section areas defined by the thickness of the laminations and the resulting cross section area will consist of the isolated stacks of laminations in both cases.