Group: alt.energy.renewable
From: Eeyore
Date: Monday, September 10, 2007 3:56 AM
Subject: Re: Wind turbine 1000 feet away and on mountain top possible?



BobG wrote:

> Eeyore wrote:
> > Depends how high you want to go.
> >
> > If the frequency drops seriously below the specified operating frequency the
> > core will simply saturate and worst case, the primary circuit will burn out due
> > to the resulting over-current.
> ====================================================
> Come on. I wanted to know how hi a freq a 60hz transformer can take,

It varies. There's no hard and fast rule. It's construction dependent as well.
Toroids do better at high frequency fwiw.

Graham