Sun Transformer

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July 26, 2010 - Sun Transformer recently added two new components to its array of production equipment, increasing product versatility and decreasing production time for PC-mount transformers and mid-size toroids. One of the new pieces of equipment, an HBR Industries laminator, is used to manufacture one of Sun Transformer's benchmark products. "The products we make most often with the new laminator are the low-profile transformers that are mounted on printed-circuit assemblies," says Vice President of Operations Angie Calkin. These parts are most commonly used in electronics applications where vertical space is very limited but a relatively sizable output voltage is still required. Refer to the LPC Transformer page on this site for more information about these types of transformers. "The biggest advantages that come from having this laminator are the versitility it offers and the quick turnaround time in production," says Calkin. "Our low scrap level from using this laminator has also been very impressive." The other new piece of equipment, a mid-size Gorman Productor II toroid winder, also benefits electronics applications with limited space. As with the new laminator, the new winder allows Sun Transformer to build a wide variety of toroids. It also enables building products that are not feasible to be built by hand. "Some toroids require several hundred turns of wire, which is very challenging to do by hand," says Design Engineer Les Vaughn. "Others require very small-diameter wire, and this winder can handle those types of jobs." "These kinds of toroids are used for a lot of circuit board assemblies, especially the very small boards that require miniaturized components, so the benefits of having this new winder are many." May 18, 2010 - Every five or ten years, it happens. We'll be relaxing at home watching television, most likely a science-fiction show, and there it is. In the background, an enormous transformer powering a very sophisticated piece of equipment that's key to the storyline. These transformers are almost exclusively toroids , which consist of a series of coils wrapped around a ring-shaped core. It happened in the Fox series Sliders, which tells the story of Quinn Mallory, a genius graduate student who has figured out how to open vortices to alternate universes. Needless to say, it takes quite a bit of power to generate a vortex, so Quinn has equipped his basement workshop with a four-foot-diameter toroidal transformer to handle the task. When Quinn powers up the system to create a vortex, the lights flicker upstairs and the vortex magically appears in front of him. It happened in the series Stargate SG-1, which follows the SG-1 military team as they explore the universe in search of greater knowledge and potential military allies to help defend the Earth. In the season-five episode Ascension, a friendly alien named Orlin stays with SG-1 team member Samantha Carter for a few days while trying to figure out how to get back to his home planet. The solution to his problem is a homemade stargate (that is, an interplanetary portal).

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