Method of making an electrical inductive apparatus

A method of constructing electrical inductive apparatus, comprising the steps of:

• providing leg laminations having first and second ends, and upper and lower yoke laminations,
• stacking said leg laminations to a predetermined build dimension to provide complete leg members having first and second sides defined by the outermost laminations,
• orienting said leg members in spaced parallel relation with their first and second sides in substantially horizontally oriented planes,
• assembling said lower yoke laminations with the first ends of the leg laminations, starting at one side of the leg members and progressing to the other side, to provide a sub-assembly having leg members and a lower yoke member,
• uprighting said sub-assembly such that the second ends of the leg laminations are higher than their first ends,
• providing an electrical winding assembly for at least one of said leg members,
• telescoping said electrical winding assembly over said at least one leg member,
• and assembling said upper yoke laminations with the second ends of the leg members, starting intermediate the first and second sides of the leg members and progressing outwardly therefrom in opposite directions to the first and second sides of the leg members, to define an upper yoke member.