An astute Towertalk reader asked me off-list whether the ferrite that I had salvaged from my burned-out common-mode choke/balun was still good. He said he had read that frying ferrite ruins it. I rep
I had a core crack once due to overheating. It was in a "2KW" 4:1 balun. It didn't care for the particular impedance my zepp presented on 75 meters. I guess I should have saved the two pieces and use
Yes they do. If you put an ampere turn or so through a high permeability ferrite, it will magnetize and permanently lose a lot of inductance. You can of course fix this by heating above the curie te
You are absolutely correct, and I knew it when I wrote what I did, which is why I hedged by writing that they do not retain **much** magnetism (in comparison with "hard" ferrites). I probably should
Or running WAY TO MUCH POWER... My friend Del, W7DJM and I came up with several WAY TO MUCH POWER isms.... I.E...... If you need grease zerks on your electric meter, your probably running WAY TO MUC