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

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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?