Practical Concerns
Core steel is much more costly than mild steel—in 1981 it was more than twice the cost per unit weight.
The size of magnetic domains in the sheet can be reduced by scribing the surface of the sheet with a laser, or mechanically. This greatly reduces the hysteresis losses in the assembled core.
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