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23rd May 2020, 12:13 am | #21 |
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Re: Rewinding a toroidal mains transformer
If you are going to voltage double it, make sure you use full wave rectification!!! If you use half wave the BH curve will be all biassed one way, the transformer will run hot, it will be noisy, and regulation will be horrible. A toroid must be closely balanced.
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23rd May 2020, 8:16 am | #22 |
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Re: Rewinding a toroidal mains transformer
"OK, it's not pretty but £16 as compared to over £100 for a commercial unit looks good to me." Me too, well done. I recommend terminating the winding wire to your multi stranded wire somewhere where you can get to it in future, might be an idea to go easy on the varnish in that area too. I've had winding's break just there in the past, the thought of having to unwind does not appeal.
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29th May 2020, 6:03 pm | #25 |
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Re: Rewinding a toroidal mains transformer
The added HT winding worked out pretty much exactly as predicted by the circuit simulator. I'm using a full wave voltage doubler which seems to work fine with the more or less constant current drawn by the receiver it is powering.
The most time consuming part was waiting for the RS 199-1480 transformer vanish to dry after I'd given the whole transformer a good soaking in a tub of the stuff. I put about 8W DC through the mains winding to get the temperature up to hand hot (60C?) but it still took two days for the smell to dissipate. Anyway, job done. Thanks for all the help |