The method of calculating core losses as in the attached excel concurs very well with the "Inductor anlyzer" method on the micrometals website.
So....the method is......
1...use their relation for ur vs H to get the ur value at each current step from say 0.1A to 10A say....stepping up by say 0.1A at a time
2....Then calc the H and dH for each step
3....then calc dB from dB = uo.ur.dH
4...then accumulate the dB into the running B total.
...thats it.
The above concurs very closely with micrometals website calculator.
Would you agree with this method?
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and - what are the results for a design with +/- 20% ripple at peak mains .... ?
The "inductor analyzer" on micrometals website gives the following results.....which concur well with the above "dH stepping" method.. This is for 35% ripple...ie, the di at mains peak is 2.4A and the (average) mains peak current is 6.8A.
So
core loss = 1.5W
winding loss = 2W
This is for torroid MS-106160-2
(a) two stacked torroids
(b)...34 turns of AWG20
PFC with 115vac input, 550w output, 120khz, vout = 220vdc