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Re: Choke winding question

From Clive Arthur <cliveta@nowaytoday.co.uk>
Newsgroups sci.electronics.design
Subject Re: Choke winding question
Date 2017-03-15 22:02 +0000
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On 15/03/2017 17:29, John Larkin wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Mar 2017 15:42:45 +0000, Clive Arthur
> <cliveta@nowaytoday.co.uk> 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?
>>
>> Cheers
>
> You can't just buy something from Coilcraft?

Well, that wouldn't answer my question.

Anyway, high voltage, high temperature, constrained space mean not COTS.

Cheers
-- 
Clive

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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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