Just found out I have to make my own transformer for an off-line/high-freq SMPS I'm hoping to design and learn from (hopefully before getting zapped to my death with 220VAC). Making my own is not a problem hardware-wise, seems we have access to pretty much the whole hardware via eStores (cores, bobbins, mylar, etc etc). What I completely lack of is confidence (knowledge?) in manually calculating wire and sizes, ferrite core shapes and everything else relevant to the great science of transformation, electrons and magnetism...
So ranting aside; can someone (please) recommend a software toolkit that offers these calculations?
Thanks
Simulators and me don't seem to get along .
Good old Casio Scientific Calculator wins worlds!! Can see a week or two of 'theories' though... so that sim comes quite handy in the sense that it will get me a flyback TR on the benchtop in time for when the PCB and components will arrive. Copper wires and Dbl'ed the order of fuses lol
Just a follow-up on the progress and the solution I've settled with. Not a huge fan of promoting anyone's products being clueless about all fronts (I'm sure they are the good guys lol) but I have to say that the application provided by power.com made it happen for a beginner; from schematics, BOM, to the manual fabrication of the magnetics... it just works!!!
Serious Plug & Play stuff...