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And here I was, excited to learn something about actual transformers, something involving wire and metal..
by dusted 7y ago
And here I was, excited to learn something about actual transformers, something involving wire and metal..
- NKCSS 7y agoSame here, would have loved a build creating some actual transformers :)
- quickthrower2 7y agoI was hoping for monad transformers.
- megous 7y agoWe did in school on a coil winding machine, and also learned the math. I don't rember the winding part being that much fun. :) It was something old, akin to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-GyMYZ8yTU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-GyMYZ8yTU
- segfaultbuserr 7y agoRF transformers (in forms of various coils, chokes, baluns, etc) are more interesting and complex to analyze. I once winded three of them, and none worked. I thought I finally found an article that explains the subject, well, not a chance ;-)
- CDSlice 7y agoI thought it would be about making a Transformers like toy using 3D printing or something.
- skohan 7y agoThat would be a really neat project: printing a functional transformer as a single piece.
- myself248 7y agoSame. Magnetization current and core saturation are fairly fundamental properties influencing transformer design, but they're barely even mentioned in introductory texts. I feel like a lot of modern transformers are just sort of cargo-cult imports of old designs because everyone who knew the salient parameters has retired and the current crew just kinda nudges things until they work. A from-scratch explanation, up to the current state of the art, would be invaluable to anyone who deals with them. But nah. This is HN, where headlines are their own code.
- petemc_ 7y agoIn that case you might enjoy this: https://ludens.cl/paradise/turbine/turbine.html https://ludens.cl/paradise/turbine/turbine.html Was posted here a while back. Fascinating guy.