From: Hammy on


I'm trying to wind 3 x 26AWG twisted on a EFD20 bobbin and it's really
a PITA. Would there be a significant increase in winding capacitance
if I just use single strands in parallel? The rms current in the
primary is 2.2A primary turns of 9. It's for a 15W flyback.
From: mook johnson on

"Hammy" <spam(a)spam.com> wrote in message
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> I'm trying to wind 3 x 26AWG twisted on a EFD20 bobbin and it's really
> a PITA. Would there be a significant increase in winding capacitance
> if I just use single strands in parallel? The rms current in the
> primary is 2.2A primary turns of 9. It's for a 15W flyback.

Switching frequency?



From: Hammy on
On Fri, 7 May 2010 07:33:13 -0500, "mook johnson" <mook(a)mook.net>
wrote:

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>"Hammy" <spam(a)spam.com> wrote in message
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>> I'm trying to wind 3 x 26AWG twisted on a EFD20 bobbin and it's really
>> a PITA. Would there be a significant increase in winding capacitance
>> if I just use single strands in parallel? The rms current in the
>> primary is 2.2A primary turns of 9. It's for a 15W flyback.
>
>Switching frequency?
>
>

Whoops sorry it's 100kHz.
From: Bill Sloman on
On May 7, 2:27 pm, Hammy <s...(a)spam.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to wind 3 x 26AWG twisted on a EFD20 bobbin and it's really
> a PITA. Would there be a significant increase in winding capacitance
> if I just use single strands in parallel? The rms current in the
> primary is 2.2A primary turns of 9. It's for a 15W flyback.

The usual arguement for using twisted wire to widn a transformer is to
minimise the leakage inductance (not capacitance) and to make the
three windings involved as nearly identical as possible (to one part
in more than ten million, if you do it right - which is of interest in
ratio transformers, and pretty much irrelevant for the windings of a
flyback converter).

I wouldn't have though that it would have made much difference to the
inter-winding capacitance; twisting the wires will mean that they will
be - on average - a little further apart that wires laid in parallel,
but that isn't going to make much of a difference.

--
Bill Sloman, Nijmegen