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Awesome short video a great display of the power of moving electrons


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This demonstration of inductive heating is awesome...

 

 

Kinda makes you want to run out and buy some copper pipe right now...

 

 

Seriously, is this real or some sort of trick?

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Very real. The system acts as a step-down transformer, so the eddy currents in the cube are much higher than in the coil, which is water-cooled (telling you there's probably a decent amount of resistive heating going on, despite the relatively low resistance)

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Very real. The system acts as a step-down transformer, so the eddy currents in the cube are much higher than in the coil, which is water-cooled (telling you there's probably a decent amount of resistive heating going on, despite the relatively low resistance)

 

 

so that's why they used a copper pipe!

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Keeping the inducing coil cold is difficult.

 

The number of turns doesn't help, at least at low frequencies. In the same shape, if you put N times more turns, having each N times less cross-section, and total length N times bigger, then the (low frequency) resistance is N2 times bigger. The current is N time smaller, so the resistive losses stay the same. (Eddy currents and skin effect don't scale like this, hence I insist on low frequency)

 

What helps is:

- Copper versus more resistive material

- Resistivity increasing at heat

- If the heated material is ferromagnetic (...not too hot hence), then current flows only in a much thinner skin at its surface, and the resistance is much bigger. This is the case when the surface of a steel part is heated by induction, then this surface is cooled quickly by the deeper matter of the part, and this hardens the steel at the surface only.

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