[TowerTalk] BALUN revisited again

[Jim Brown]

Exactly right, and that's in the N6BV QST article to which I referred.

73, Jim

On Sat,4/9/2016 12:04 PM, Richard (Rick) Karlquist wrote:
> Note that differential mode dissipation is strictly due to
> conductor losses in the windings, and doesn't depend on the core.
> It's mainly an issue because the windings concentrate the
> heat in a small area.  Also, it's not just the mismatch that
> matters, but whether the choke is at a high current or low
> current location, assuming low loss dielectric is used.
> For example, a balun used to feed a 1 wavelength long dipole
> will have low differential mode dissipation because the
> dipole impedance is high (low current).