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Registered Member #2390
Joined: Sat Sept 26 2009, 02:04PM
Location: Milwaukee Wisconsin
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This may or may not help depending on the resistance you need your coil to be, and the whole rest of the monsters math. Use a 1/4 x 1/8 rectangular copper bar for your coil. Try to calculate a coil with 2 to 3 complete turns of the 1/4 x 1/8 material. If you can do that (without water cooling the coil itself, and using a water cooled copper block for the igbt heatsink) you'll be in business. A machine that works with this ratio is capable of melting pyrex, turning steel white hot in 3 seconds, and alot of things that are too cool for school! Especially with the igbt's you have. Give me some time, ill try to talk with some work associates and maby i can get a schematic for this madness!
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Joined: Wed Dec 10 2008, 06:09PM
Location: West-Flanders Belgium
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Ok if that schematic comes out i'll sure try it, but now its an exam period for me and i've stopped working on my induction heater.
After the christmas holiday's i will try to improve my induction heater driver and i'll try to get some 600V 100A IGBT's from the old frequency regulators in school.
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I'm interested in the progression of the project, and probably would assemble the schematic/design as well. :) Have access to 50A@240V, and willing to use it all. I want to melt aluminum/other metals for casting, etc.
Able to get CM series IGBTs and what not if needed.
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