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Recent content by RogerL
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permanent magnet as electromagnet
Hello KireEng, I've toyed with this problem of soft landing an armature a few times. Using a spring is difficult because as dgallup says: "Due to the highly non-linear relationship of force to air gap the armature naturally wants to slam home." A spring would work...but only if it was as...- RogerL
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- Forum: Magnetic engineering
