5V 100A secondary, 115V primary

Apr 24, 2005 11 Replies

Wonder if you couldn't get there by winding a 5V secondary on a 5A variac core? Would be easy to pull a turn or two off the primary to get exactly where you want to be.

NitPick Alert... One could assume that you mean 115.000VRMS 60Hz sine wave input gives 5.000VRMS output into a resistive 100ARMS load. But that's an odd set of numbers. Some applications would have a range of line input voltages and a range of allowable output voltages. And when you get to 100A, things like secondary resistance begin to matter. And if you intended to rectify it and get 100A out, there are may be some peak current and core saturation issues... I guess what I'm saying is that you haven't given enough information to specify a transformer...but maybe it doesn't matter. mike

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Get a microwave transformer and cut out the secondary. Than wind your own secondary in place.

Boris Mohar

Any body has a transformer that has 5V 100A at the secondary and 115V at the primary.



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why not make one? its not hard, just a total pita.

MOTs will deliver 1kW+ for 15 minutes fan cooled before frying, put 2 in series and theyll run for ever more.

NT

I read in sci.electronics.design that Boris Mohar wrote (in ) about '5V 100A secondary,

115V primary', on Sun, 24 Apr 2005:

A microwave transformer will not supply 500 W for more than a few minutes even with fan cooling.

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Thanks for the info. I really appreciate it.

Eugene

Maybe where you live, but not in the US-

A cheap and cheerful solution might be to get two of them and wind the secondary through both.

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I'm not sure what you're after, but if you're going to make a 5V 100A dc supply with your transformer, you should know that there are lots of compact 100A, 150A, 200A, plus some 300A industrial surplus switching power supplies available at reasonable prices, such as under $100. I even have a few extra such beasts.

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I see you snipped your own input on this. :)

NT

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