Re: [Phys-l] Inductive cooking

[Bernard Cleyet <bernardcleyet@redshift.com>]

During one Summer job I made an about 25? W class C oscillator (VT  
807?) to use as an induction furnace.  I tested it by dangling a  
large steel nut in the "tank" coil  and couldn't get it very hot.  I  
concluded, incorrectly I now learn, that it didn't work past its  
Pouillet temperature.  I see now I probably just needed much more power.

bc



On 2009, Apr 05, , at 18:10, John Denker wrote:

> Don't be too hard on yourself if your physics intuition said that
> induction heating should be possible for non-ferromagnetic materials.
>   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induction_heating
>
>
> On 04/05/2009 04:21 PM, curtis osterhoudt wrote:
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induction_cooker
>
> OK, but that's not the whole story.
>
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