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Re: Measuring AL value via NanoVNA #coils #transformer


 

I found this online (
):
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As with air wound inductors, the inductance for fixed ?r, the inductance
varies as the square of the number of turns. The ? in the above equations
should be the ?r of the toroid material times ?o (of free space).

So the scaling between 33 turns and 21 turns would be [21 / 33]^2 or
0.401. If you measured 36 ?H with 33 turns, you should have 33 ?H x 0.401
= 13.4 ?H with 21 turns. Of course, the 33 turns is with 0.1 mm and the 21
?H is with 0.2 mm. But with a larger core, I would expect greater
inductance than the original 0.1 mm core.

Bear in mind that the tolerance in ?r from unit-to-unit may be as much as
20%. This is quite normal even with toroids from the same batch from the
manufacturer.

Dave - W?LEV

On Wed, Jul 6, 2022 at 4:29 AM F1AMM <18471@...> wrote:

Hello

I have very little experience with toroids. I made some RUTHROFF
transformers but nothing more. On my cores, I note that the Al is not
constant. Is this normal ?

TORUS
====
Outside diameter ? 10 mm
Inner diameter ? ~ 5 mm
height 5mm

Self of 33 turns of ? 0.1 mm
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Bridge measurement BF Z serie
120Hz: 36.75?H 0.443 Ohms
1kHz: 36.34?H 0.447 Ohm
10kHz: 36.08?H 0.455 Ohms
100kHz: 35.91?H 0.635 Ohms

Self of 21 turns of ? 0.2 mm
--------------------------------------
Bridge measurement BF Z serie
120Hz: 8.081?H 0.0764 Ohms
1kHz: 8.122?H 0.0764 Ohm
10kHz: 8.112?H 0.0771 Ohms
100kHz: 8.084?H 0.112 Ohms

Calculation of aL ? (it-is good ?)
=============
Self 33 turns: 33 nH/turn?
Self 21 turns: 18 nH/turn?

73 QRO
F1AMM (Fran?ois)





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