In Reply to: Re: Let's try another approach. posted by Dave Kingsland on May 2, 2006 at 19:13:20:
(or a huge inductor) until the core saturates. It will conduct some small magnetizing current until the core saturates, then it will look like a short-circuit. The nonlinear behavior of the core makes it look a lot more like an ideal transformer than an inductor until the core saturates.It will only look like an inductor with a time constant comparable to the inverse of the power frequency if such an inductor is attached to the secondary as a load.
Sorry to curtail this discussion, but I'm going out of town and won't be back before 13 May.
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- The transformer looks nearly like an open-circuit - Al Sekela 19:20:13 05/03/06 (1)
- Re: The transformer looks nearly like an open-circuit - Dave Kingsland 05:35:00 05/04/06 (0)