At 03:48 PM 9/28/2004, Bob Blick wrote:


>>>On 28 Sep 2004 at 13:45, Dave VanHorn wrote:
>>>
>>>> One interesting trick for boost or buck switchers, is to use a magnet
>>>> to
>>>> bias the core, and roughly double the current the core can take without
>>>> saturation. A few thousand hours at 100kHz is a lot of pulses.
>
>Width coils in CRT-based monitors have used this trick, too.

Kind of implies that as long as you stay below the magnetizing energy, and the curie point, you'll be ok long term.

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