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- From: rexm@sad.hp.com (Rex Musgrave)
- Subject: Re: What is a ferite bead?
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- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 22:59:42 GMT
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- Brian Carey 283-4181 (careyb@dallas.jsc.nasa.gov) wrote:
- :
- : What is a ferite bead? The one talked about below.
- :
- : The "Y" harness might be acting like an antenna and causing interference
- : with the receiver. I have had this problem and fixed it by running the base
- : of the "Y" cable through a ferite bead (one turn) to choke off the RF. This
- : worked with an airtronics receiver. When I install servos in the wings of
- : my gliders I go ahead and put the ferrite bead in every installation and
- : have not had any problems since.
- Ferrite is from the word Ferrous or iron based.
-
- A ferrite bead is a toroid (doughnut) made of this iron based
- material. What the writer was talking about was to run the
- control wire through the center of the toroid, wrap it back
- around and through the center once again (one turn).
-
- When currents flow through a wire they create electric and magnetic
- fields around the wire. By passing the wire through the ferrite
- bead, these fields cause currents to flow in the bead which is
- a lossy material for RF (Radio Frequency) energy. Therefore, if
- you are receiving this RF energy into the wires to your servo,
- the energy will be dissipated in the bead in the form of heat
- before it can get back into your receiver circuitry and mess things
- up there.
-