[TowerTalk] Split cores..from fair rite

[Jim Brown]

On Tue,2/10/2015 8:12 AM, Jim Thomson wrote:
> Tnx to a tip, fair rite makes this huge snap on, pn Fair-Rite Part Number 2631181381
>
> This thing has an ID of 1.394 inch..which is just a hair less than the 1.4 inch of normal type 31 cores.
> However, this monster is 2.5 inchs tall... and the eq of 5 x normal toroids..which are only .5 inch tall.
> Dunno what it cost,  but it’s a quick fix for a lot of applications.   It has the same Z as 5 x normal toroids.

Yes. That part number applies to HALF of a clamp-on, and without the 
plastic clamping assembly. So to make that a choke, you must use two of 
them AND clamp them very tightly together. This is a new part, within 
the last year or so. I ordered a bunch of them for a group purchase, 
because the data sheets did not show that it was not a complete 
clamp-on. We returned them. It's a deal that was too good to be true. 
And it's not cheap -- a pair of these parts costs as much as five cores, 
and you still don't have a clamping mechanism. At the very least, this 
requires a couple of very robust Ty-Wraps.

73, Jim K9YC