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Re: [TenTec] 4229 Tuner Balun Replacement?

To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [TenTec] 4229 Tuner Balun Replacement?
From: Steve Hunt <steve@karinya.net>
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Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 12:11:54 +0000
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On 15/11/2010 00:24, Dr. Gerald N. Johnson wrote:
Yet if the common mode voltage is enough it conceivable could saturate
the core.

If you do the thermal calculations on the cores commonly used in these chokes you'll find it's almost impossible to saturate them - for typical amateur mode duty-cycles they will over-heat and fracture at flux densities well below those at which they saturate. And that problem is avoided by designing them to have very high CM impedance.


73,
Steve G3TXQ

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