[.uk] Transformers (Professional Engineering) (ISBN 0071447857)

OK for Trafo Materials:
Books which give details on how transformers are actually built are few and far between. I have a suspicion that writers who are in a poition to provide details do not do so because they want to keep the knowledge 'secret'. This book, along with some others, gives some, but not enough practical details or examples on how to design a transformer. It also goes into academic details which are largely irrlevant as they are not covered in enough depth to be useful. I think some of the authors just liked impressing their colleagues with how complicated theire end of the business was. However the section on manufacturing teh trafo tank itself was good, as was the covberage of the raw materials used to make the trafo itself. Yet there is very little complicated about 90% of the building of a trafo, and the 10% that is complicated is really only of interest to the manufacturer. The book which gives most details about trafos is Feinberg ' Modern Power Transformer Practice' although it is badly laid out and suffers from some units being in metres, others in mm2 etc. The J& P Trafo book is readable and useful, although limited in Design details