Toroids and “Shorted Turns”

As I was going through some things today I stumbled upon an email discussion I had recently on the topic of toroids (i.e. toroidally wound transformers and inductors) and shorted turns. Given the popularity of toroids, and amount of misinformation floating around on the internet on the topic of shorted turns, I thought that a short discussion of the phenomenon was in order.

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A Productive Day

So I usually have multiple amp projects going on at any one time. There is a rather large project that I’ve been working on but it’s going rather slowly and I was hungry to make some progress on something. As such, I decided to tackle a smaller project I first prototyped in 2011 and that has been on hold since 2015. I spent the better part of today turning an 11″ x 58″ plank of Zebra Wood {Microberlinia brazzavillensis} into an amp chassis.

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