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Pros and Cons of Using Ferro Transformers

4/6/2017

2 Comments

 
Electronetics has extensive experience designing and building CVT transformers for a variety of applications and regulation profiles as tight as ±3% over wide line and load variations.

These highly specialized transformers are designed to enhance and control characteristics that are normally minimized. CVTs require highly controlled leakage inductance (the inductance that prevents any primary voltage from transferring to the secondary) to isolate the secondary from the primary. The leakage inductance is electrically connected to a capacitor that forms a resonant tank circuit causing the secondary portion of the magnetic core to saturate. Saturation, something to be avoided in other transformer designs, is exploited to force a maximum limit on the secondary voltage.
The pros and cons of CVTs with this capability are:

Pros
  • Good output regulation with no active circuitry
  • High reliability
  • Excellent primary to secondary isolation
  • Improved power factor on the primary even when the secondary is rectified and filtered
  • Excellent tolerance to continued short-circuit on the secondary

​Cons
  • Can be audibly noisy
  • Large size relative to power output
  • Requires separate resonating capacitor
  • Does not tolerate surge loads
  • Lower efficiency due to more core material and saturating part of the core

Electronetics designs CVT transformers for a wide variety of applications with regulation profiles as tight as ±3% with an input voltage variation as much as ±15%. Contact us today.
2 Comments
Antonio Carlos Alves
7/6/2021 03:55:30 pm

Hi
Could you explain better please?
Does the ferroresonant transformer not operate efficiently on variable loads such as an audio amplifier (not in A class) or an RF amplifier in SSB? Or on a power stage of an AM modulator?
What happens if operated under the conditions described above?
Lose regulation property, is there excess power consumption in the primary?
Thank You, Antonio from Brazil.
Amateur Radio call sign: PY5AB.

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Taylor Hansen link
8/30/2021 09:52:59 am

I like how you mentioned the pros of these transformers. I've been thinking about getting new ones for my factory. Seems like a good idea to get the right type.

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