| No, it can't work. Take a careful look at the magnet flux
| path in any ordinary 3-phase transformer. They're all
| in parallel, if you think of the top bar as one pole
| of a bar magnet that's split into 3 things, and the
| bar at the other end is the other pole. So all the
| fields oppose, and energy gets to go to the secondary.
| With your toroid, the magnetic paths are in series,
| which is pretty much like a short circuit, so, as
| John Larkin noted, "It would blow up instantly."
Is there a way to mix phases in the magnetic domain much like they are
mixed in the electrical domain by connecting leg to leg in a 480Y/277
secondary to get the 480 volts which is 30 degrees different in phase
then the 2 277 volt secondary windings?
What I was trying to come up with was something that lets you adjust
the phase with a big knob much like a variac is used to adjust voltage.
| Cheers!
| Rich
|
| |> In sci.electronics.basics John Larkin
|> | On 1 Jan 2004 16:57:29 GMT,
[email protected] wrote:
|> |
|> |>Having noted that utility distribution 3 phase transformers have a core
|> |>that is really one big core for all three (though spatially separated a
|> |>bit), I have been wondering what would happen in the magnetic field if
|> |>one were to take a toroid core, put the three phase primaries on it at
|> |>120 degree positions covering only 1/3 of the toroid each, and then have
|> |>a "rolling secondary" that slides around the toroid (mechanical support
|> |>for the mass would then be done with wheels holding up the 2/3 not being
|> |>used for the secondary).
|> |
|> | It would blow up instantly.
|>
|> OK, take the rolling secondary back off. Just have 3 primaries covering
|> 1/6 of the toroid each, and 3 secondaries covering the remaining gaps
|> between those secondaries.
|>
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