trafo 0.3
Description
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trafo is a simple and practical utility designed to
calculate all the necessary information to build
an E-I transformer.
Compilation & Installation
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For instructions on how to compile this software,
please read the INSTALL file.
License
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trafo is free software: you can redistribute it
and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU
General Public License as published by the
Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of
the License, or (at your option) any later version.
Copyright (C) 2012 Joaquín Musanti
For further information, please read the COPYING file.
How to use
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This program is very user friendly and easy to use.
The program will ask for some inputs from the user that
are required to correctly execute the necessary calculations
to provide the user with the transformer's description.
The program will require you to input the input voltage,
the amount of outputs, the voltage for each output, the
intensity for the output with greater voltage, the frequency,
and whether or not you want a direct current output.
Answering "Yes" to this last question will add 3 volts to
each output which will be necessary for the diodes to work (they
eat up aproximately 0.7 volts each x 4 = 2.8 volts).
Once all the information has been provided to the program,
the calculations will take place and then the results of
those calculations will be shown on the screen.
Example of usage:
$ ./trafo
Press C-c at any time to exit
Primary coil voltage [V]: 220
Number of outputs: 3
Voltage of output 1 [V]: 30
Voltage of output 2 [V]: 40
Voltage of output 3 [V]: 50
Intensity for the 50 volts output [A]: 22
Frequency [Hz]: 50
DC output? [Y/N] y
Primary coil:
Volts: 220 V
Amps: 5.3 A
Turns: 264
Wire diameter: 1.5 mm
Wire area: 0.0176667 cm^2
Weight: 1542.03 g
Secondary coil
Volts: 53 V
Amps: 22 A
Turns for 30 volts output: 40
Turns for 40 volts output: 52
Turns for 50 volts output: 63
Wire diameter: 3.1 mm
Wire area: 0.0733333 cm^2
Weigth: 1527.48 g
Max power: 1166 W
Frequency: 50 Hz
Core area: 37.5614 cm^2
Base: 6 cm Height: 6.3 cm
Turns per volt ratio: 1.19804 Turns/V
Core N#: 180
Number of "E" Silicon cores: 126
Number of "I" Silicon cores: 126
Primary coil voltage [V]: ^C
- NOTE: If the user chooses to create a transformer with several
outputs, and these outputs have the same voltage, then the program
will remove them and will consider them as a single output.
Eg: 4 outputs 40 volts each = 1 output w/40 volts
Bug reports
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If you have to report any bugs, please do so at
<joakomusanti@gmail.com>
