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Re: [Amps] Plate choke magic?

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Subject: Re: [Amps] Plate choke magic?
From: "Steve Thompson" <g8gsq@ic24.net>
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 08:07:50 -0000
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Tomm Aldridge wrote:
> Why are plate chokes seemingly black magic?  Don't you just want a
> good decoupling of the PS from the Plate; i.e. lots of impedance from
> DC to Light and no resonances?  How I get that should not be an issue
> but all teh plate chokes I see are long skinny and sometimes
> segmented single layer solenoids of questionable wire size.  Why
> wouldn't a really lossy powdered metal toroid with a few fat turns on
> it work, assuming the inductance was high enough?
It might, although I think you're looking for low loss not high loss in the
core material.

Steve



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