Sources on Making Current Transformers

Title Link Comments
Non-Academic Sources (Blogs, Forums, etc)
The Current Transformer https://www.electronics-tutorials.ws/transformer/current-transformer.html A helpful blog post detailing some of the underlying theory and equations used in making current transformers. It may be wise to use this as a baseline reference - but equations should be verified & cited from an EMAG or power electronics book.
Current Transformer - Definition, Principle, Equivalent Circuit, Errors, and Types https://owlcation.com/stem/What-is-a-Current-transformer-How-does-it-work Another blog-like post about general current transformers. One of the most useful things to get from this work is the phasor analysis of a current transformer.
How to build very low cost current transformer? https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/116195/how-to-build-very-low-cost-current-transformer This is a stack exchange post about making current transformers. Some pretty good breakdowns in the responses. Once again all of the work should be verified against a reputable source.
Wattmeter http://renaud.schleck.free.fr/wattmetre.php In this blog post, he makes a watt meter, and most notably winds the current transformer by hand. Something important to note is in his measurements he does not note any of the phase angle compensation - which is something I will have to characterize for my current transformers.
How do I design a current transformer? https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/136086/how-do-i-design-a-current-transformer Another Stack exchange post about making CTs. Good listing of mathematics & variables used in designing CT.
Academic Sources
A Current Transformer Model Based on the Jiles–Atherton Theory of Ferromagnetic Hysteresis https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/847229 Looks like a fancy way to model CTs mathematically. Likely an unnecessarily high level for this project. Don't think simulation will be necessary.
An Efficient Compensation Algorithm for Current Transformer Saturation Effects https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/1339324 This looks like a pretty good paper that details recognizing CT saturation and methods to compensate. Though I won't be looking at the specific algorithms in this paper - recognizing the saturation point may be an important point for device characterization.
High-Current High-Precision Openable-Core AC and AC/DC Current Transformers https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/278628 They go into analysis about air gap transformers --- something that may be pretty transferable to the kind of analysis that I'll do for my transformers.
Calibration of Current Transformers in distorted conditions https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/1065/5/052033/meta Analysis of CTs in distortion -- may be a good to set of tests to put our transformers under to characterize their robustness.
Transformer and Inductor Design Handbook https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315217666 This website doesn't work very well - might be sketchy. But also a design handbook would be helpful
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