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winding transformer for high frequency and current

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IamSmooth
Mon Jun 14 2010, 03:50PM Print
IamSmooth Registered Member #190 Joined: Fri Feb 17 2006, 12:00AM
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I have seen suggetions like copper tubing, litz and insulated copper strap. Where would I get insulated copper strapping? Also, is $4/foot reasonable for 1600 strand/#36gauge litz wire?

Does anyone have extra litz wire close to these dimensions?
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Experimentonomen
Mon Jun 14 2010, 04:26PM
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Try bundling up several litz wires, i just finished a new induction heater prototype, using the transformer from an old 3.5kW smps, it used litz wire for the primary and secondaries, bundles of several litz wires.
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IamSmooth
Mon Jun 14 2010, 04:30PM
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Is this insulated strap reasonable?

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Experimentonomen
Mon Jun 14 2010, 04:40PM
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I think thats alittle thin for transformer use, copper strap i've seen in transformers was around 0.2-0.3mm or so thick.
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Pinky's Brain
Mon Jun 14 2010, 04:58PM
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What kind of frequency? At 100 KHz+ 20 mil is already over twice the skin effect depth, so at that point it's just about thermal conductivity/storage.
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IamSmooth
Mon Jun 14 2010, 05:35PM
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Experimentonomen wrote ...

I think thats alittle thin for transformer use, copper strap i've seen in transformers was around 0.2-0.3mm or so thick.

was this insulated?
where did you see it?

the copper strap i've seen is uninsulated
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Finn Hammer
Mon Jun 14 2010, 07:59PM
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This is where *I* would probably make my purchase:
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IamSmooth
Tue Jun 15 2010, 01:59PM
IamSmooth Registered Member #190 Joined: Fri Feb 17 2006, 12:00AM
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Thank you. I'm looking into this.

Right now I am winding one layer of wire. Is there any reason, if the conductor is flat, that I can't wind more than one layer? In other words, a 1/2" flat conductor, which has the appropriate cross-sectional area to handle the current at 20mil, will be too wide to get 20 turns in one layer. Can I keep going around in more than one like a regular transformer?
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