Wow, those are monster C cores! What power capability would your estimate at 50Hz grids?
Best regards!
this was from an isolation traffo rated for 1000watts/50 hz...300 watts at 30 hz is a reasonable expectation imho...
360VA if you can squeeze in the same amount of copper and can liv with the distortion at maxed out induction.
I use 0.5T at 50Hz for lowest distortion (distortion increases at higher induction, starting from 0.4T, inductance reaches a max somewhere between 0.8 and 1.2T), this would give at most 80W output but it all depends on what you need or want want. In the old days 0.4-0.6T at 40Hz (allowing maxed out inductance at 20Hz) was considered best for minimum distortion with 3%Si Goss (McIntosh squeezed out a bit more, 75W with only 4kg of iron, but that is because the high amount of fb allowed for a bit higher transformer distortion)
I use 0.5T at 50Hz for lowest distortion (distortion increases at higher induction, starting from 0.4T, inductance reaches a max somewhere between 0.8 and 1.2T), this would give at most 80W output but it all depends on what you need or want want. In the old days 0.4-0.6T at 40Hz (allowing maxed out inductance at 20Hz) was considered best for minimum distortion with 3%Si Goss (McIntosh squeezed out a bit more, 75W with only 4kg of iron, but that is because the high amount of fb allowed for a bit higher transformer distortion)
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this is a power traffo using a 2inch center leg stacked to 3 1/4 inch DEECO silicon steel (noss) irons..
specs are as follows:
primary: 220 volts 60hz.
secondary1: 250volts at 2amps.
secondary2: 100volts at 0.5amps
secondary3: 12.6volts at 10 amps
secondary5&6: 6.3 volts at 3 amps
http://s5.photobucket.com/user/leoman53/media/tony trAFFOs/110711p- 036_zpsh8kt3qpt.jpg.html
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http://s5.photobucket.com/user/leoman53/media/tony trAFFOs/110629a-016_zpscljmyrko.jpg.html
http://s5.photobucket.com/user/leoman53/media/tony trAFFOs/110711p- 040_zpsgn2c8can.jpg.html
completed, there are 3 chokes sitting on top, 1/2inch, 5/8 inch, aqnd 3/4 inch.
http://s5.photobucket.com/user/leoman53/media/tony trAFFOs/110711p- 041_zpsso6g7jgm.jpg.html
testing prior to dipping in polyuretahne varnish
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Dear Tony,
I have a tube preamp thet wants 120V and 12V power supply fom 230V AC EU mains power.
Would it be possible for you to make me a transformer with dual 120V and 12V outputs like the one here? Please quote in PM.
Greetings,
Mario G Rouwenhorst
Netherlands
Dear Tony,
I have a tube preamp thet wants 120V and 12V power supply fom 230V AC EU mains power.
Would it be possible for you to make me a transformer with dual 120V and 12V outputs like the one here? Please quote in PM.
Greetings,
Mario G Rouwenhorst
Netherlands
Mario, very sorry for the late reply, i design and build traffos for my own projects, but i am not a commercial entitity, sorry i do not sell transformers.....
Good day sir! I just want to ask if you use 500cma both in power trafo (even the heater 6.3v tap) and output trafo?these are tables i made to assist you in designing trafos....ampacity can be anywhere from 700 circular mils per ampere to 300 cma, i start design using the 500 cma column..
Thank you so much. Hope you respond. 🙏
latest traffo build for an amplifier build....1 3/4 inch center leg stacked to 4 inches, using 0.35mm H18 laminates
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Impressive, as ever
. I wish I'd have a winding machine and all the materials.
But I wonder why you're stacking the laminations this high instead of chosing bigger lams with a wider center leg to get a more square center cross section. The higher the quotient of height and width, the higher the turns length, which turns into higher DC resistances, and the higher the inter and intra winding capacitances.
Best regards!

But I wonder why you're stacking the laminations this high instead of chosing bigger lams with a wider center leg to get a more square center cross section. The higher the quotient of height and width, the higher the turns length, which turns into higher DC resistances, and the higher the inter and intra winding capacitances.
Best regards!
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