Re: Topband: Testing chokes with 31 material

2011-08-29 Thread Tod
RonL A follow up to my earlier response with respect to measuring the chokes using an AMI 4170. This afternoon I measured two chokes with the AIM 4170 and ploted the results on the two cores, 4 turns and two cores, 5 turns graphs to show the results compared with the measurements I made usi

Topband: Fabricated common mode chokes - Sourcing

2011-08-29 Thread Lloyd Berg N9LB
Hi Tod! Thanks for the data. I'd like to build up several toroid chokes for 160, 80 and 40 meter use. I looked at the Fair-Rite site, no 31 material. I looked at their vendors and went to Amidon ...amidoncorp.com/items/19 Amidon does have "F Material Ferrite Toroids" " High Saturation flux densit

Topband: Fabricated common mode chokes and their impedances

2011-08-29 Thread Tod
This probably has a limited audience but I do know that there are some readers on this list interested in fabrication of high impedance common mode chokes for their stations. I built and measured 18 of this type of choke during the past week. There is a write-up on my web site which shows how they