I'm trying to figure out how eddy currents change with frequency. While learning about this its occurred to me that eddy currents might be impacted differently as frequency changes, if the voltage is a square versus a sine wave. (Assuming the peak voltage reached does not change).
A square wave with a negligible rise time is essentially a DC voltage applied to the transformer (for this discussion really just an inductor) for half a period of the operational frequency. As frequency changes, the amount of time the voltage is applied changes, but the resultant slope of current, mmf, H-field, and B-field, is the same regardless of frequency. di/dt = V/L .
Since eddy currents are a result of induced voltage across core resistance, and induced voltage is proportional to slope of flux (V = L * di/dt), then eddy currents remain constant as frequency of a square wave driving voltage changes. (The peak flux reached changes but that does not result in a higher induced voltage.)
But with a sine wave, the slope of the applied voltage actually changes with changes in frequency, so therefore the slope of the flux changes, and this would changes in induced voltages which create eddy currents. For instance higher frequencies induce higher voltages and therefore higher eddy currents.
Is this correct?
