Where can an individual purchase core material, paper, wire, etc? We may need
to get serious about winding our own...
Wonder if there is a distributor who will sell Hypersil C cores to hams.
I would love to give it a try -- but can seem to locate anything on the
Internet.
-Steve
WG7K
----- Original Message -----
From: jeremy-ca
To: Jeffrey Okamitsu ; KEVIN ADAM ; Jim Nowotarski ; amps@contesting.com
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 3:25 PM
Subject: Re: [Amps] Are there more Tranformer suppliers out there
Anybody want to bet that Martin F Jue will buy it for pennies on the dollar?
Carl
KM1H
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeffrey Okamitsu" <jokamitsu@yahoo.com>
To: "KEVIN ADAM" <n9iww@msn.com>; "Jim Nowotarski" <N3GOO@arrl.net>;
<amps@contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 4:03 PM
Subject: Re: [Amps] Are there more Tranformer suppliers out there
> There are very few good ones.
>
> As the world has moved to switching power supplies,
> even for high voltage, the need for precision wound HV
> transformers has diminshed greatly.
>
> My company uses iron core transformers and oil-filled
> HV caps for ferro-resonant power supplies for our
> products (microwave powered lamps).
>
> Over the last 10 years many suppliers of these
> components have abandoned these product lines for two
> reasons:
>
> 1) The manufacture of these components is decidely
> un-friendly to the environment;
> 2) Decrease in demand.
>
> Solid-state switching power supply technology for HV
> applications, although very expensive on a dollar per
> watt basis, has many advantages versus iron-core
> transformer technology:
>
> 1) Size/weight.
> 2) Efficiency.
> 3) Better EMC/EMI compliance.
> 4) Easier supply chain management.
>
> I predict that within 5 years the suppliers who
> provide my company with iron-core HV transformers and
> oil-filled caps will exit their respective markets,
> which is why we're moving to 100% solid-state
> technology on our power supplies.
>
> 73, Jeff W3KL
>
> --- KEVIN ADAM <n9iww@msn.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Are there more transformer Makers out there if so
>> who would be as good as peter dahl.
>> I fell in love with 40 meter mono bander and tower
>> he put up at the shop when I was stationed in Elpaso
>> TX
>> 1987-1989 even was the when lost the first tower
>> that was sad to loose tower and beam.
>>
>> N9IWW
>> Kevin Adam
>> 1239 West Till Rd
>> Fort Wayne, IN 46825
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