GRIDRA

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Transformer & Magnetic Circuit Designer

Design the winding turns and core for a transformer or inductor from classical magnetic-circuit theory — set the voltage, frequency and core, add an air gap or a flux concentrator, and see the required turns, saturation margin and flux split.

Basitçe

Bir transformatör, telin bir manyetik nüvenin etrafına sarılmasıyla çalışır — kaç sargı gerektiği ve nüvenin doyuma ulaşıp ulaşmayacağı (düzgün çalışmayı bırakması), nüvenin malzemesine, boyutuna ve şekline bağlıdır. Bu araç tam olarak bu hesabı yapar: gerilim, frekans ve nüve geometrisini gir, gereken minimum sargı sayısını ve bunun doyuma ne kadar yaklaştığını hesaplasın. Ayrıca bir hava aralığını ve isteğe bağlı bir "akı yoğunlaştırıcıyı" da modeller — yüksek geçirgenlikli bir yolun manyetik akıyı kendi üzerinden çekmesi, tıpkı bir telin elektrik akımını en az dirençli yoldan geçirmesi gibi.

Winding & core

01 / input
V
Hz
% of saturation Bsat

Typical values for the material class, not one manufacturer's datasheet — check yours before building.

ratio
T
mm²
mm

mm

Shunt / flux concentrator

A parallel high-permeability path alongside the gap

339 turns required

Peak flux density 1.528 T — 85% of this core's saturation rating.

Design result

02 / readout

Required turns

339

Peak flux density

1.528 T

Saturation margin

85%

Magnetizing inductance

1.93 H

Magnetizing current (RMS)

379.33 mA

Magnetizing current (peak)

536.46 mA

Peak flux

3.06 mWb

MMF (peak)

181.9 A·t

Total reluctance

59.51 kA·t/Wb

How this is built: a magnetic circuit solved exactly like an electrical one — reluctance in place of resistance, flux in place of current, magnetomotive force in place of voltage. Required turns come from Faraday's law (V = 4.44·f·N·B·Ae), rounded up to the nearest whole turn, which is why the actual peak flux density is always at or slightly under your target, never over. Series paths add reluctance directly; the gap and an optional shunt/concentrator combine as a parallel pair. The air gap includes a standard first-order fringing correction — flux bulges outward at the gap, enlarging its effective area beyond the core's own cross-section, so the gap's reluctance (and the "effective area" row below) is a little lower than a naive same-area calculation would give. That correction is only reliable for a gap that's small relative to the core's own cross-sectional width — a warning appears if your gap is large enough that this stops holding. Magnetizing current is treated as sinusoidal, valid well below saturation; real magnetizing current distorts as a core approaches Bsat. This is the analytical starting point real designs use before refining the geometry in a field solver (COMSOL, ANSYS Maxwell, etc.) — not a replacement for one.

Explore: Flux Concentrator Core Geometry Lab

A 3D exploration of open-core sensor shapes — closed ring, gap, half-core, sector — referenced against a real published paper.

Further reading

  • Col. Wm. T. McLyman, Transformer and Inductor Design Handbook, CRC Press — the standard reference for exactly this kind of turns/core/saturation calculation.
  • J. J. Grainger & W. D. Stevenson Jr., Power System Analysis, McGraw-Hill — transformer fundamentals and magnetic circuit basics.
  • IEC 60076-1, Power transformers — Part 1: General — the standard reference for transformer design and rating conventions.