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Re: [Amps] Ferrite Rod

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Subject: Re: [Amps] Ferrite Rod
From: "Larry Carman" <lncarman@swbell.net>
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 08:06:31 -0600
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Tom,

   Thanks for pointing that out. I wasn't thinking about the canceling
effects of bifilar wound and the need to do so especially under high
currents.  

Larry N5BIP

Tom said:

>We *never* want to do this with high current filaments. The 
reason being nothing cancels magnetizing flux caused by the 
many ampere turns of the single winding and the core often 
saturates. The result is at best a loss of RF choke 
impedance at the filament, at worse it will introduce hum as 
the filament current modulates the reactance causing large 
reactance swings at a 120Hz rate (two impedance nulls and 
two peaks per AC cycle).<

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