Heating in 4-1/2 turn inductor
 

I'm sure it was not a bad connection.
I know all about heat caused by I^2 x R at connections.
In fact just yesterday I was checking for bad connections on my electric
gokart and I burned my finger! I found a loose connection between a
5/16" post and a ring terminal connected to a 6 gauge wire.
It was some oddity about the 1/2 turn in a potcore. I suspect the low
turns count is also important to the phenomena.

And I think these is exactly why you are pursing it. You believe it must be
due to some fanciful effect because of the "1/2" turn as if 0.5 was more
special than 0.73524 or 1.0.

You have the mindset to those people that think 3.141592... is special. This
causes you to overlook the obvious. First, pi in another base is not
3.1415.... but in any case it must have been some number. In some alternate
universe we could imagine it being 5.43524. In is only special in the sense
that we make it special because it seems different than most other decimals.
In fact though there are a ton of "special numbers".


The theory of ideal inductors does not give any reason why a 1/2 turn should
at all be important. Tim mentioned the promixity effect which would produce
heating throughout the windings and more so for inner windings so it is not
the correct effect here.

Most other phenomena that stand any chance of creating the effect would do
it symmetrical. Why? Because both ends have no special preference for the
heat. This should be completely obvious.

The only chance is if you wrapped the windings in such a strange and crazy
way and a totally screwed up core as to make a retard jealous of your work.

We think of other possibilities that would work in a non-symmetric way but
they just don't seem to gel with physics. No one can say for sure since you
obviously don't have any good investigative information to provide about it.

Almost always things that seem phenomenal are due to simple mistakes. If you
are really serious about it then I would suggest you attempt to reproduce
the result then do a bit more investigation. Until then you might want to
drop it because we don't need another cold fusion story circulating around.
(I'm being facetious)

Heating in 4-1/2 turn inductor
 

"Jeff Johnson" wrote in message
...


I'm sure it was not a bad connection.
I know all about heat caused by I^2 x R at connections.
In fact just yesterday I was checking for bad connections on my electric
gokart and I burned my finger! I found a loose connection between a
5/16" post and a ring terminal connected to a 6 gauge wire.
It was some oddity about the 1/2 turn in a potcore. I suspect the low
turns count is also important to the phenomena.

And I think these is exactly why you are pursing it. You believe it must
be due to some fanciful effect because of the "1/2" turn as if 0.5 was
more special than 0.73524 or 1.0.

You have the mindset to those people that think 3.141592... is special.
This causes you to overlook the obvious. First, pi in another base is not
3.1415.... but in any case it must have been some number. In some
alternate universe we could imagine it being 5.43524. In is only special
in the sense that we make it special because it seems different than most
other decimals. In fact though there are a ton of "special numbers".


The theory of ideal inductors does not give any reason why a 1/2 turn
should at all be important. Tim mentioned the promixity effect which would
produce heating throughout the windings and more so for inner windings so
it is not the correct effect here.

Most other phenomena that stand any chance of creating the effect would do
it symmetrical. Why? Because both ends have no special preference for the
heat. This should be completely obvious.

The only chance is if you wrapped the windings in such a strange and crazy
way and a totally screwed up core as to make a retard jealous of your
work.

We think of other possibilities that would work in a non-symmetric way but
they just don't seem to gel with physics. No one can say for sure since
you obviously don't have any good investigative information to provide
about it.

Almost always things that seem phenomenal are due to simple mistakes. If
you are really serious about it then I would suggest you attempt to
reproduce the result then do a bit more investigation. Until then you
might want to drop it because we don't need another cold fusion story
circulating around.
OH, you think I might have some overunity thing going on?
Let me get my magnet motor out!
(I'm being facetious)
Me to.
MikeK

Heating in 4-1/2 turn inductor
 

On Aug 27, 10:31*am, "Jeff Johnson" wrote:

The theory of ideal inductors does not give any reason why a 1/2 turn should
at all be important.

Oh, yes, it DOES give a reason. A pot core (or E cores) has a pair of
return
flux arms flanking the central element, and a '1/2 turn' winding
imbalances
those return fluxes.

That means the 3-d flux inside the core is very different in the
two cases, and if one return arm saturates, that flux distribution
alters
considerably during the cycle. That causes (1) the material to heat
due to remagnetization in an asymmetric way, (2) the forces of the
pole pieces to modulate as the field builds. The first effect (caused
by material hysteresis) might have been expected. The second
effect, though, will cause ultrasonic excitation of the core, maybe
creating cracks by mechanical stress.

Heating in 4-1/2 turn inductor
 

"whit3rd" wrote in message
...
On Aug 27, 10:31 am, "Jeff Johnson" wrote:

The theory of ideal inductors does not give any reason why a 1/2 turn
should
at all be important.

Oh, yes, it DOES give a reason. A pot core (or E cores) has a pair of
return
flux arms flanking the central element, and a '1/2 turn' winding
imbalances
those return fluxes.


In the ideal case the fringe effects are usually ignored. Atleast every book
I've read about inductance supposes the fringe effects can be ignored.
Remember, we are talking about the inductive effects on heating those ends
and not the inductance itself.

That means the 3-d flux inside the core is very different in the
two cases, and if one return arm saturates, that flux distribution
alters
considerably during the cycle. That causes (1) the material to heat
due to remagnetization in an asymmetric way, (2) the forces of the
pole pieces to modulate as the field builds. The first effect (caused
by material hysteresis) might have been expected. The second
effect, though, will cause ultrasonic excitation of the core, maybe
creating cracks by mechanical stress.

In all causes if the the ends are relatively symmetric then both should heat
up equally. Also the fringe effects tend to reduce the heat on the ends and
not increase it. Also all the effects you describe should heat the central
windings more than the outside and have little to do with the end turn
amount. Again, In all cases it would be symmetric unless the core or
windings themselfs were wound in some weird way. 99.99999% of all inductors
are wound to be symmetric.

So if there is some effect that is due to the reasons you describe then it
must be because they let a 2 year old create the winding.

Now, you'll have to excuse me if I make some assumptions about what is going
on. When he says inductor I think of basically something that looks like an
inductor and acts like one. So if he did something non-standard then he
should include that information.

I cannot totally exclude some physical reason why such a thing could happen
because I don't know all the possibities. Given the assumption that what
they created was very much inductor like no one has presented any reason why
only one side would heat up and the rest of the coil would be fine that is
due to the coil/core.

The most likely effect is that the connection on that one end was bad or was
shorting out. This is the best guess given the little amount of information
that was provided.

Since he said the same result was produced independently then this possibly
suggests something else but the same mistake could have been made twice.

It would be quite easy to create a partially laminated core that was not
laminated near one end. The core would heat up due to eddy currents which
would heat up the 1/2 turn first. Who the hell would use such a core? Such
behavior is to be expected when someone doesn't know what they are doing.

Heating in 4-1/2 turn inductor
 

On Aug 27, 1:30*pm, "Jeff Johnson" wrote:
"whit3rd" wrote in message

...

On Aug 27, 10:31 am, "Jeff Johnson" wrote:

The theory of ideal inductors does not give any reason why a 1/2 turn
should
at all be important.

Oh, yes, it DOES give a reason. *A pot core (or E cores) has a pair of
return
flux arms flanking the central element, and a '1/2 turn' winding
imbalances
those return fluxes.

In the ideal case the fringe effects are usually ignored.

What 'fringe effects'? This is about the flux contained in the
magnetic arms of the core, not outside somewhere

That means the 3-d flux inside the core is very different in the
two cases, and if one return arm saturates, that flux distribution
alters
considerably during the cycle. *That causes (1) the material to heat
due to remagnetization in an asymmetric way, (2) the forces of the
pole pieces to modulate as the field builds. *The first effect (caused
by material hysteresis) might have been expected. *The second
effect, though, will cause ultrasonic excitation of the core, maybe
creating cracks by mechanical stress.

...all the effects you describe should heat the central
windings more than the outside and have little to do with the end turn
amount.

Oh, this has nothing to do with ohmic heating in the windings. It
concerns
the B-H curve, which (for a hysteretic material) loops around some
area.
At 600 kHz, the area, multiplied by 6e6, is the power lost when the
magnetic material is forced to traverse that loop.
If part of the material saturates, its loop is of greater area than
the rest of
the material. A core that should handle 2A without overheating, then
would overheat.

Heating in 4-1/2 turn inductor
 

"whit3rd" wrote in message
...
On Aug 27, 10:31 am, "Jeff Johnson" wrote:

The theory of ideal inductors does not give any reason why a 1/2 turn
should
at all be important.

Oh, yes, it DOES give a reason. A pot core (or E cores) has a pair of
return
flux arms flanking the central element, and a '1/2 turn' winding
imbalances
those return fluxes.

That means the 3-d flux inside the core is very different in the
two cases, and if one return arm saturates, that flux distribution
alters
considerably during the cycle. That causes (1) the material to heat
due to remagnetization in an asymmetric way, (2) the forces of the
pole pieces to modulate as the field builds. The first effect (caused
by material hysteresis) might have been expected. The second
effect, though, will cause ultrasonic excitation of the core, maybe
creating cracks by mechanical stress.

Some may find interest in this.
A turn around an outside leg of an E-core is called a half-turn because it
encloses only one-half of the cross-sectional area of a turn around the
center leg. It is well known that a half-turn in a secondary winding of a
power transformer greatly increases the leakage inductance between windings,
thus causing an adverse effect on cross-regulation. However, the increased
leakage inductance of a half-turn can be very beneficial in tapped inductors
for boost circuits and in coupled output chokes. This paper explains some of
these little-known applications of a half-turn. The theory and formulae for
prediction of leakage inductance added by such a half-turn are presented
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/lo...hDecision=-203

Heating in 4-1/2 turn inductor
 

In article , "amdx"
wrote:

Several years ago while making inductors for tuning a class E amplifier we
end up with a 4-1/2 turn inductor. The inductor used a 3F3 potcore, gapped I
think,
but it has been awhile. The inductor was driven hard but below saturation.
The problem; the 1/2 turn got HOT. Four turns or five turns were ok.
My physicist friend had an EE verify the problem 2000 miles away.

So, can anyone tell me why 1/2 turn would make such a difference in the
heating?

Thanks, MikeK

** Is it a 5-turn inductor with 1/2 turn shorted?

--
Richard L. Measures. AG6K, 805-386-3734, www.somis.org

Heating in 4-1/2 turn inductor
 

In article ,
"amdx" wrote:

Several years ago while making inductors for tuning a class E amplifier we
end up with a 4-1/2 turn inductor. The inductor used a 3F3 potcore, gapped I
think,
but it has been awhile. The inductor was driven hard but below saturation.
The problem; the 1/2 turn got HOT. Four turns or five turns were ok.
My physicist friend had an EE verify the problem 2000 miles away.

So, can anyone tell me why 1/2 turn would make such a difference in the
heating?

Thanks, MikeK

Only two ideas from me, and they seem weak.

A half turn means the current goes in and out on separate sides. That
makes one turn of inductance perpendicular to the rest of the turns that
would skew the magnetic field.

If it is a powdered iron core, the volts per turn could be high enough
that it conducts electricity.
--
I won't see Google Groups replies because I must filter them as spam

Heating in 4-1/2 turn inductor
 

On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 14:23:13 -0700 (PDT), whit3rd
wrote:

On Aug 27, 1:30*pm, "Jeff Johnson" wrote:
"whit3rd" wrote in message

...

On Aug 27, 10:31 am, "Jeff Johnson" wrote:

The theory of ideal inductors does not give any reason why a 1/2 turn
should
at all be important.

Oh, yes, it DOES give a reason. *A pot core (or E cores) has a pair of
return
flux arms flanking the central element, and a '1/2 turn' winding
imbalances
those return fluxes.

In the ideal case the fringe effects are usually ignored.

What 'fringe effects'? This is about the flux contained in the
magnetic arms of the core, not outside somewhere

That means the 3-d flux inside the core is very different in the
two cases, and if one return arm saturates, that flux distribution
alters
considerably during the cycle. *That causes (1) the material to heat
due to remagnetization in an asymmetric way, (2) the forces of the
pole pieces to modulate as the field builds. *The first effect (caused
by material hysteresis) might have been expected. *The second
effect, though, will cause ultrasonic excitation of the core, maybe
creating cracks by mechanical stress.

...all the effects you describe should heat the central
windings more than the outside and have little to do with the end turn
amount.

Oh, this has nothing to do with ohmic heating in the windings. It
concerns
the B-H curve, which (for a hysteretic material) loops around some
area.
At 600 kHz, the area, multiplied by 6e6, is the power lost when the
magnetic material is forced to traverse that loop.
If part of the material saturates, its loop is of greater area than
the rest of
the material. A core that should handle 2A without overheating, then
would overheat.

You may be on to something. Maybe. At least it make physics sense to
me, but then i are enguneer. It does show a path to have thermal
non-uniformity that is regenreative.

Say Mike just how big is that pot core?

Heating in 4-1/2 turn inductor
 

"JosephKK" wrote in message
...
On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 14:23:13 -0700 (PDT), whit3rd
wrote:

On Aug 27, 1:30 pm, "Jeff Johnson" wrote:
"whit3rd" wrote in message

...

On Aug 27, 10:31 am, "Jeff Johnson" wrote:

The theory of ideal inductors does not give any reason why a 1/2 turn
should
at all be important.

Oh, yes, it DOES give a reason. A pot core (or E cores) has a pair of
return
flux arms flanking the central element, and a '1/2 turn' winding
imbalances
those return fluxes.

In the ideal case the fringe effects are usually ignored.

What 'fringe effects'? This is about the flux contained in the
magnetic arms of the core, not outside somewhere

That means the 3-d flux inside the core is very different in the
two cases, and if one return arm saturates, that flux distribution
alters
considerably during the cycle. That causes (1) the material to heat
due to remagnetization in an asymmetric way, (2) the forces of the
pole pieces to modulate as the field builds. The first effect (caused
by material hysteresis) might have been expected. The second
effect, though, will cause ultrasonic excitation of the core, maybe
creating cracks by mechanical stress.

...all the effects you describe should heat the central
windings more than the outside and have little to do with the end turn
amount.

Oh, this has nothing to do with ohmic heating in the windings. It
concerns
the B-H curve, which (for a hysteretic material) loops around some
area.
At 600 kHz, the area, multiplied by 6e6, is the power lost when the
magnetic material is forced to traverse that loop.
If part of the material saturates, its loop is of greater area than
the rest of
the material. A core that should handle 2A without overheating, then
would overheat.

You may be on to something. Maybe. At least it make physics sense to
me, but then i are enguneer. It does show a path to have thermal
non-uniformity that is regenreative.

Say Mike just how big is that pot core?

I think it may have been a 3622 but could have been a 4229.
MikeK