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- From: sbbrown@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Stephen B. Brown)
- Subject: Re: What is a ferite bead?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.180348.4090@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
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- References: <1993Jan6.205946.10039@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> <C0GFvJ.2nH@srgenprp.sr.hp.com>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 18:03:48 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.
-
- In article <C0GFvJ.2nH@srgenprp.sr.hp.com> rexm@sad.hp.com (Rex Musgrave)
- writes:
- >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).
-
- Mr. Musgrave explanation was correct except on one point. The convention
- when winding on inductors on a toroid is that the number of turns is the
- number of times the wire passes through the center of the toroid. (See,
- for example, the ARRL Handbook, pg. 24-8 in the 1990 edition.) Thus,
- Mr. Musgrave describes a two-turn inductor, not a one-turn one.
-
- The term ferrite bead, in my experience, usually refers specifically to
- toroids intended for single turn inductors. They are slid onto wires or
- component leads or wires like beads on a necklace. Usually, the center
- hole is small, so there is only room for the wire to pass through once.
-
- I get mine at hamfests or at Universal Amateur Radio. My catalogs aren't
- handy right now, but I'm sure that many mail order electronics houses
- sell them. One manufacturer (I think the name is Amidon) puts out an
- excellent little brochure describing the various types of ferrite material,
- the frequency ranges for each, and the color coding used to label them.
-
- Another poster asked about the sizes available. I've seen toroid cores
- up to 8-10" in diameter. These were intended for custom wound power
- transformers, or for chokes for large cables such as thick coax. Except
- for prowling hamfests, I don't know a source for the large ones off the
- top of my head.
-
- The only thing Radio Shack carries are the snap together cores intended
- for appliance-type power cords. These are sometimes effective at
- suppressing the RFI generated by lamp dimmers or heating pads.
-
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- Steve Brown, N8HFI sbbrown@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
- Chief Engineer, The Ohio State University Radio Observatory ("Big Ear")
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