[TowerTalk] Fair rite materials for choke baluns

[Richard (Rick) Karlquist]

On 7/5/2016 7:25 PM, Jim Thomson wrote:

>
> ##  Ok, what happens when cores ARE saturated... but with minimal heating
> involved ?    I cant  see the SWR changing  on a  CMC.... but I can see the
> CMC  ceasing to work, and   CM  currents increasing a bunch.  IOW,  it
> might be like the  CMC  isnt even there.  Once saturated, will the CMC
> function again,  if power is reduced, or say after a period of  time.
>
> Jim   VE7RF
>

My current transformer was permanently disabled by a single
incident of core saturation.  It might have been revived
by heating above the curie temperature.

Rick N6RK