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Fun with FEMM magnetics simulator (am I doing this right?)
« on: June 23, 2019, 05:00:06 am »
To learn and possibly use as a design tool (if I eventually learn how to use and interpret it) I've downloaded the free FEMM magnetics (and other things) simulator

Pictures attached are my attempt to simulate current density in a fairly big (12 cm x 16 cm x 6 cm core size) EE/EI transformer. The primary is 6 turns of 2 AWG (0.26" / 6.5mm diameter)

The current is set to 350 amps @ 625Hz

I had it integrate the losses in the areas of the conductors..it says 38W..hmmm

This took maybe 20 minutes to generate the simulation results btw

Next I will try to put a secondary.

Any advice or tips would be welcome and appreciated

The software is pretty straightforward to use..it has very simple inputs but I get the impression its very powerful at the same time..

If anyone has interesting simulation ideas I might draw it up and run it

Edit: just noticed it has 7 turns...doesn't really matter that much at this point I guess.

Edit: I think I did something wrong because its showing flux density in the core at 2T..should be a tenth of that. I think I know what it was..I will re-sim
« Last Edit: June 23, 2019, 05:14:37 am by cur8xgo »
 


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