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Find the perfect coupled inductor for SEPIC, Zeta, or other applications. Table. of Contents. Wax nostalgic about and learn from the history of early electronics. See articles. from Electronics World, published May 1. December 1. 97. 1. All copyrights hereby acknowledged. Ferrite and toroid links. My own AL calculation software Interface switchable between NL and the UK language. Micrometals is committed to supplying high quality, low cost soft magnetic core material to meet the needs of the electronics industry. Wirewound inductors as most are. Because. of interwinding capacitance and a sometimes. If you have the luxury of staying far away from the self resonant. SRF of the coil, your component will behave very. XL 2f. L. This article delves into what causes inductors to act like parallel. Youll also learn if you dont. How to Select R. F. Chokes. By Joseph Tartas There is more to an r. When all its characteristics are known, it can prove. Not so many years ago, the selection of an r. You simply asked for a Z 5. MHz area, or a Z 1. MHz range. Chances were, you didnt know. For very low frequency work, the selection of a choke usually. If you were. really designing, you might make a lot of calculations and measurements. Today, the picture has changed considerably and instead of. In a single manufacturers line. The most important improvement in the RFC field in the past. This information includes inductance. Q although often misleading this will be discussed. Because of extreme environmental requirements in military and. C and. power dissipations that depend upon body sizes, covering materials. In spite of all this information, it often requires a bit. Torrent Smith Micro Poser Pro 2014. RFC to use in your particular circuit. Before you can do this, however, you must have a thorough understanding. Why a Choke Is Used Basically, an r. This distributed capacitance Fig. For the moment. consider the self capacitance, or distributed capacitance itself. A choke. would then appear schematically as in Fig. A, and its impedance. Figs. 2. B and 2. C, respectively. Fig. Besides inductance, on RFC, like. Fig. 2 A How an RFC looks electrically. B and C show Q and reactance, respectively, for different. Q. As in all parallel resonant circuits, the maximum impedance. Q and this, in turn, will. The impedance depends upon. A good approximation of. Zr. LCR as long as the circuit Q is at least 1. The value. of R is normally the sum of the series resistances of the inductance. This, then. boils down to the inductance, the distributed capacitance, and. Q and hence the bandwidth of the choke, and its effectiveness. Thus, it. is obvious that the value of inductance of a choke is not as. Chokes come in many forms, the particular type depending upon. Many are simple single layer. A single layer solenoid has the lowest distributed capacitance. For a single layer, close wound choke. Cd. 7. 5 diameter in inches, with C in p. F. In a multi layer coil Fig. A, the capacitance is considerably. If the layers are wound so that the difference. The total distributed. However, other problems. Q must be considered, as well. In multi section chokes, the individual sections may be alike. In most cases, the choke is not like a single resonant. Fig. 3 Two different methods of winding. Note winding arrangement difference between. A and B. When a large inductance is required and the use of a single layer. This, in turn, means a larger distributed. One method of reducing capacitance is to wind. Early attempts to reduce capacitance by means of bank winding. Fig. 3. B resulted in expensive chokes, since this method required. The coil could not be held to the production tolerances then. The development of the universal coil winder provided the. This type of. winding, while not having the lowest attainable capacitance. The universal layer wound coil, more commonly known as. Fig. 3. B and the slot wound coil. Fig. 4. A. The slot wound coil has a distributed capacitance equal to. A. see Fig. 4. B and the other plate the outer diameter B. Since. a two plate capacitor of two greatly different areas depends. Fig. 4 Styles of coil construction. A. Method of winding a slot wound coil. B A winding form as used. C Self supporting coil. The universal wound pie of Fig. C is simply a free standing. As the art progressed, powdered iron cores were developed. Like all new materials, powdered iron had its own limitations. If the permeability, the ratio of inductance with the. Q. the size of the coil was not reduced greatly. Increasing the. Q suffered greatly due to core losses so that. QX was inadequate to warrant the use. Eventually, new ferrite materials ceramic materials with. C. the temperature capabilities of the ferrites fell apart. Either. the temperature coefficient was poor, causing excessive change. C that. the resulting inductance became too low to be effective long. This led to further improvements in the capabilities of ferrite. Examples of this size reduction are a miniature 1. H. choke with a molded phenolic form having a distributed capacitance. F for several makes, and a ferrite bodied choke. I p. F. capacitance. Chokes having an iron core, for the same inductance, run. F. In large chokes using non miniature techniques, the capacitance. Because these chokes are usually wound with. The current rating of a choke will often depend upon the. Fig. 5 shows. a curve for de rating one type of miniature choke. If the current. rating is given at the maximum temperature to be encountered. This is the. current necessary to reduce the effective choke inductance by. Fig. 5 De rating curve for one type of. Chokes are normally used to prevent coupling of r. Any wires that lead from stage to stage, circuit. In r. f. circuitry in particular, there is usually a series. Furthermore, mixers, detectors, and. These leads can be any or all of the following. B, B, a. g. Carefully selected, the proper choke can be an r. A recently introduced innovation is a series resonant trap. Utilizing the capacitance. Like the parallel resonant. RFC to make a series resonant trap. How to Use Chokes Because a choke is composed largely of distributed inductance. Depending upon the values of these constants. At the fundamental self resonant frequency and at all odd. At even multiples, the same choke acts as a series resonant. This phenomenon occurs because a choke does act as a transmission. If it were so terminated, a choke would be little more than. Because of the distributed elements, a choke may be thought. Hence, at any given. It is customary, however, to select a choke having its highest. B. line, for example, as shown in Fig. A. If a choke is selected. SRF as the frequency. And because a choke is a. SRF is. not affected by external elements connected from either end. It is, however, affected by. SRF, Q, or parallel resonant. Because it can be altered, such a choke may be utilized as. Figs. 6. B, 6. C, and 6. D and have its loaded. Q adjusted by adding a parallel resistor or tube or transistor. Two chokes in series, with the combination shunted. Fig. 6. E. The tap can be adjusted by the proper selection. Because. of the extremely wide range of available chokes 0. H. to many millihenrys in small increments, almost any ratio is. Fig. 6 Various uses for r. A. R. f. suppressor. B, C, DUsed as a tank coil. E Tuned. circuit with tap. As a transformer, an RFC can be used with. F mutual, G top C, H top L, I bottom C, J bottom L. It is also possible to use two chokes as primary and secondary. Fig. 6. F. Again, the wide range of values. Depending. upon the size and type selected magnetically shielded types. If greater coupling is desired. C, top L, bottom C, or bottom L, as shown in Figs. F through. 6. J, can be utilized.