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Old 5th Feb 2019, 11:14 pm   #22
gezza123
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Location: Eastham, Wirral, Merseyside, UK.
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Default Re: Induction hobs - a question

Ah, well I will not be buying the SPECTATOR they need to do
proper research.
I feel sorry for his friend in Chiswick, she should have listened to
her Architect and had it installed, and as for breathing a sigh off
relief when she cancelled her order he must have shares in a gas
company.
I have built these since the 1980s and have ran and tested to
distruction and they are fine.
still have one in the workshop for twenty years that has never had a
problem.
If they are used correctly and explained how to be used by the public
and not being scare mongerd out of buying one by people who have
no concept of how to use them we would all proberly have them.

As far as not being able to use other pans, you can use any that a
magnet will stick to the bottom called ferrus metal.

Induction heating is not new, I wonder if he has heard of
Mr. Farday in 1831 and Mr.Foucault wrote his paper 1868 called
the Induction of currents in cores.

Induction cooking started in th uk in the 1980s,and there was only
one company in the uk (Stangard induction Ltd)and they bought
there electronics in France from Laurac Industries
I was asked by Shell Tankers could I repair these as the Thyristors
units as they were going faulty, yes yes was my answer and that was
the start of (C.G.M Induction Ltd)and then there were two.

Stangard used thyristors at 25Khz, I used logic with micro chip 8085
family/Eprom Software and a mosfet bridge at 30Khz 3 kWh.
C = Corcoran
G = Gayton
M = Merredith

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