Re: Topband: Fabricated common mode chokes - Sourcing

2011-08-31 Thread ZR
- Original Message - From: "Jim Brown" To: Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2011 10:34 AM Subject: Re: Topband: Fabricated common mode chokes - Sourcing > On 8/30/2011 10:30 AM, ZR wrote: >> Did you open up a Cushcraft balun to discover that method? I believe some &g

Re: Topband: Fabricated common mode chokes - Sourcing

2011-08-31 Thread Guy Olinger K2AV
> As to charring -- that's an issue if the device in question is seeing a > lot of dissipation.  Properly designed and applied, chokes should NOT > see a lot of dissipation unless they are being used in series/parallel > combinations to do impedance transformation. > > 73, Jim Brown K9YC OR, if th

Re: Topband: Fabricated common mode chokes - Sourcing

2011-08-31 Thread Jim Brown
On 8/30/2011 10:30 AM, ZR wrote: > Did you open up a Cushcraft balun to discover that method? I believe some > other companies do similar and Teflon wire is used so it doesnt char as does > THNN. "These methods" are well documented in the literature, especially Jerry Sevick's work (W2FMI). In one

Re: Topband: Fabricated common mode chokes - Sourcing

2011-08-31 Thread Don Kirk
Paul N1BUG said : Mouser has the Fair-Rite 2.4" #31 core for $7 each. That is the lowest price I have found for small quantities. -- Last week I purchased the 2.4" O.D. 31 mix cores (Fair-Rite part number 2631803802) from Arrow Electronics, and the single quantity p

Re: Topband: Fabricated common mode chokes - Sourcing

2011-08-30 Thread ZR
Fabricated common mode chokes - Sourcing >A year or two ago, based on the experience of some hams in the UK who > found Fair-Rite cores either impossible to obtain or very expensive, I > did some more experimental work that resulted in designs for > transmitting chokes that can be woun

Re: Topband: Fabricated common mode chokes - Sourcing

2011-08-30 Thread Jim Brown
On 8/30/2011 10:30 AM, ZR wrote: > Did you open up a Cushcraft balun to discover that method? I believe > some other companies do similar and Teflon wire is used so it doesnt > char as does THNN. There are baluns and there are common mode chokes. I'm talking about common mode chokes. Some so-

Re: Topband: Fabricated common mode chokes - Sourcing

2011-08-30 Thread N1BUG
Hi Lloyd, Unless the type F material is far more effective than 31 material, why pay $20 each? Mouser has the Fair-Rite 2.4" #31 core for $7 each. That is the lowest price I have found for small quantities and is where I get mine. Part number 2631803802. Pay no mind to the picture on the Mouse

Re: Topband: Fabricated common mode chokes - Sourcing

2011-08-30 Thread Jim Brown
A year or two ago, based on the experience of some hams in the UK who found Fair-Rite cores either impossible to obtain or very expensive, I did some more experimental work that resulted in designs for transmitting chokes that can be wound on a single #31 core, be very effective from 80-10M, an

Re: Topband: Fabricated common mode chokes - Sourcing

2011-08-30 Thread Ian Wade G3NRW
___Original Message_ From: Lloyd Berg N9LB Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 Time: 17:00:21 >I'd like to build up several toroid chokes for 160, 80 and 40 meter use. Lloyd Take a look at this: http://www.ifwtech.co.uk/g3sek/in-prac/ and this: http://ww

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