Dear Andy, LF Group,
At 14:04 11/06/2002 +0100, you wrote:
...Anyway, isn't 2 mix - the red coloured one - the wrong material for
this frequency ? I thought that was
meant for the 2 - 20 MHz region.
It is the power materials catalogue that I have here; -2 mix is the lowest
permeability material listed, and is recommended for resonant inductor
applications. The curves give core loss data from 50kHz to 2.5MHz. All the
higher permeability materials have higher loss at a given flux and
frequency - some are better than others. Using a lower permeability means
more turns for a given inductance, which in turn means lower flux for a
given applied voltage and therefore still lower core loss. The limiting
factor is when the winding copper losses dominate the core losses - I
suppose if you want 100s of uH or mH the higher permeability stuff wins out.
Micrometals say that inductors where the core losses exceed the copper loss
are a bad idea because the heating of the core is a vicious circle where
the losses increase as the temperature rises - It doesn't say if actual
thermal runaway is possible, although it does say that prolonged operation
at high temperature causes irreversible increase in loss as well.
The Philips data for 3C85 says at 100kHz and 100mT, loss is about
100mW/cm^3, and effective volume is 17.8cm^3 for an ETD 44 core, so your
transformer core loss should be about 1.8W, plus winding losses.
Cheers, Jim Moritz
73 de M0BMU
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