[TowerTalk] Cores

[Steve Hunt]

Jim,

Any views on why they did that with Fair-Rite ferrite parts, but 
retained Micrometal's part numbering for Iron Powder toroids?

Steve G3TXQ



On 08/07/2014 20:55, Jim Brown wrote:
>
> Actually, FT240 and similar part numbers were cooked up by vendors 
> like Amidon and Palomar to keep the customer ignorant of the real part 
> number, so that they could sell the parts at sinful markups (typically 
> 3-4X their cost).
>
> That's one reason I've published Fair-Rite part numbers in my RFI 
> tutorial and listed known good North American vendors. Amidon, 
> Palomar, and DXEng are not on that list, because their markups are 
> wildly excessive.
>
> 73, Jim K9YC
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