Hello,
I am in the passions of making my own step down transformer. I want to make it from scratch, I know ...crazy. At any rate, I am aiming to use it in a welder, which I also plan to make from scrath. My question, and I hope I can get some advice, is this, can I simply use a thick iron bar as the core? Meaning I would wind the primary coil at one end of the bar and the secondary coil at the other (actually so they almost meet in the middle). Would this actually work?
I am in the passions of making my own step down transformer. I want to make it from scratch, I know ...crazy. At any rate, I am aiming to use it in a welder, which I also plan to make from scrath. My question, and I hope I can get some advice, is this, can I simply use a thick iron bar as the core? Meaning I would wind the primary coil at one end of the bar and the secondary coil at the other (actually so they almost meet in the middle). Would this actually work?