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| From | Winfield Hill <hill@rowland.harvard.edu> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | sci.electronics.design |
| Subject | Re: Choke winding question |
| Date | 2017-03-15 09:48 -0700 |
| Organization | Rowland Institute |
| Message-ID | <oabr8m01dl2@drn.newsguy.com> (permalink) |
| References | <oabn87$5ag$1@dont-email.me> |
Clive Arthur wrote...
>
>I was using a Ferroxcube calculator to work out some choke windings.
>These have to be multiple RM12, about 5mH and 2.5A DC, so I was looking
>at the maximum inductance before saturation for different cores.
>
>A 400nH core means 4 series cores each with 57 turns giving 1.3uH each.
>or 3 x 250nH cores with 89 turns, 2000uH each
>or 10 x 1000nH cores with 22 turns, 500uH each.
>
>The 400nH cores are probably best, 89 turns won't fit with reasonably
>thick wire and 10 cores is painful.
>
>However - it seems that the /total/ number of turns is about constant.
>Is that a rule of thumb, just normal or just lucky?
Did you play with the gap size?
--
Thanks,
- Win
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Choke winding question Clive Arthur <cliveta@nowaytoday.co.uk> - 2017-03-15 15:42 +0000
Re: Choke winding question Winfield Hill <hill@rowland.harvard.edu> - 2017-03-15 09:48 -0700
Re: Choke winding question Clive Arthur <cliveta@nowaytoday.co.uk> - 2017-03-15 17:03 +0000
Re: Choke winding question John Larkin <jjlarkinxyxy@highlandtechnology.com> - 2017-03-15 10:29 -0700
Re: Choke winding question Winfield Hill <hill@rowland.harvard.edu> - 2017-03-15 11:37 -0700
Re: Choke winding question Clive Arthur <cliveta@nowaytoday.co.uk> - 2017-03-15 22:02 +0000
Re: Choke winding question Winfield Hill <hill@rowland.harvard.edu> - 2017-03-15 15:16 -0700
Re: Choke winding question Clive Arthur <cliveta@nowaytoday.co.uk> - 2017-03-15 23:36 +0000
Re: Choke winding question rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-15 21:41 -0400
Re: Choke winding question Phil Allison <pallison49@gmail.com> - 2017-03-15 19:28 -0700
Re: Choke winding question bill.sloman@ieee.org - 2017-03-15 20:12 -0700
Re: Choke winding question rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-16 00:00 -0400
Re: Choke winding question Clive Arthur <cliveta@nowaytoday.co.uk> - 2017-03-16 09:03 +0000
Re: Choke winding question Winfield Hill <hill@rowland.harvard.edu> - 2017-03-16 05:56 -0700
Re: Choke winding question bill.sloman@ieee.org - 2017-03-16 09:42 -0700
Re: Choke winding question legg <legg@nospam.magma.ca> - 2017-03-15 19:23 -0400
Re: Choke winding question "Tim Williams" <tiwill@seventransistorlabs.com> - 2017-03-15 22:56 -0500
Re: Choke winding question Phil Allison <pallison49@gmail.com> - 2017-03-15 22:30 -0700
Re: Choke winding question "Tim Williams" <tiwill@seventransistorlabs.com> - 2017-03-16 15:08 -0500
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