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From: newton2@ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA
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Subject: Re: toroidal transformers
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Date: Sat, 26-Jan-85 13:05:44 EST
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Torroidal transformers, wound on gapless laminated cores, have the property
that they confine their magnetic flux substantially within the core. This,
plus their inherently sexy form-factor, makes it possible pack an amp
into a small volume and/or to choose a package shape which better exploits
the volume-to-front-panel-shape ideal. Until relatively recently torroids
were quite expensive and hard to find in high-power versions (except for
some reason in England); now they seem more common. Machines to wind torroids
obviously must exploit mechanical principles brought to earth by a superior
ET civilization-- like the sewing machine.

I suppose I've been mispelling toroid in the above..

Doug Maisel