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<div>I tried to shield the transformer with mu-metal, which solved the problem, but got hot as hell. The shorted secondary was now really tightly coupled.</div>
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<div>Best way, move the transformers outside of the case, or put them in a separate steel box inside the case. Alternately you might want to use switching power supplies as someone else suggested.</div>
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<div>You could use a toroidal AC transformer which tend to not leak external fields if you still want linear supplies. They have be expensive and hard to source.</div>
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<div>I'm a big fan of keeping 60Hz (or 50Hz) AC transformers outside of effects. </div>
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<p>Actually pot cores have been used by Dunlop in their pre 1990s crybaby.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.electrosmash.com/crybaby-gcb-95" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.electrosmash.com/crybaby-gcb-95</a></p>
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<p>-----Original Message-----<br>From: Paul Perry <a href="mailto:pfperry@melbpc.org.au" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><pfperry@melbpc.org.au></a><br>Sent: Jun 14, 2024 6:26 PM<br>Cc: <a href="mailto:synth-diy@synth-diy.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><synth-diy@synth-diy.org></a><br>Subject: Re: [sdiy] Jim Dunlop Cry Baby Wah-Wah.. 500mH inductor replacement with an inductor simulator circuit.. Feasable ?? follow up..</p>
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<div dir="ltr">This may be heresy, but replacing the original inductor by a toroidal wound one would prevent picking up external fields.
<div>There are also ferrite pot cores (that's pot as in shaped like a pot) if you feel experimental.</div>
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