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echo: aust_avtech
to: John Tserkezis
from: Jasen Betts
date: 2003-08-12 21:48:10
subject: Re: science

Hi John.

11-Aug-03 18:43:41, John Tserkezis wrote to All

 >> Whenever some engineering problem needed "brains" the
TV Lab ended
 >> up with it. I did a fan, too. They wanted to know why the fan motor
 >> was so noisy and hot... they were running the bloody iron
 >> saturated! I told them to put more turns on. I knew bugger-all
 >> about motors, so I treated it like a power transformer. It worked
 >> really well...

 JT> Actually, increasing turns would probably make it worse unless
 JT> it's the extra winding impedance you're relying on?

That had me wondering too, but I don;t really understand power transformer
design, turn ratios are the limit of ability to design transformers.

 -=> Bye <=-

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