[TowerTalk] Back of desk grounding buss

Jim Lux jimlux at earthlink.net
Wed Mar 26 19:24:29 EDT 2014


On 3/26/14 2:49 PM, Mike Fahmie wrote:
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> The formula for calculating the inductance of a flat strip is a bit tedious to work by hand, I found this calculator online that seems to produce believable results.
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> http://chemandy.com/calculators/flat-wire-inductor-calculator.htm
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> Can anyone confirm its accuracy?
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The formula cited from Terman is based on the one from E.B. Rosa and is 
correct. I cannot say whether they've implemented it correctly.  Running 
a couple test cases 1x1 and 20x0.05, it looks about the right magnitude.

square wires are about 1 uH/meter, and that's a good rule of thumb number.





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