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Title: Increductor - Any use or information?
Post by: iampoor on November 24, 2017, 04:54:45 am
https://imgur.com/gallery/9f9zn/

Figured someone might know more about this. Looks like a saturatable inductor?

No datasheet avaliable from what I can tell, heck I dont even remember where I got it from!
Title: Re: Increductor - Any use or information?
Post by: T3sl4co1l on November 24, 2017, 04:59:39 am
Yeah. Never seen a datasheet for one, but have seen an ad or two.  Should be pretty easy to figure out from measured characteristics.

Tim
Title: Re: Increductor - Any use or information?
Post by: iampoor on November 24, 2017, 05:05:03 am
Quote from: T3sl4co1l on November 24, 2017, 04:59:39 am
Yeah. Never seen a datasheet for one, but have seen an ad or two.  Should be pretty easy to figure out from measured characteristics.

Tim

Interesting, I wonder if someone, deep outside the realms of the internet, had a datasheet sitting in a musty old box.   8)

I am assuming these are usually from RF use? I dont do much past 20khz  ;D, but I think playing around with this may be fun. What applications have you seen them used in?
Title: Re: Increductor - Any use or information?
Post by: David Hess on November 24, 2017, 04:10:29 pm
They can work down into the audio and power line frequency range in magnetic amplifier (https://www.google.com/search?q=magnetic+amplifier&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjfmYDyy9fXAhWF14MKHXu2AKsQ_AUICygC&biw=1540&bih=781) applications.  High reliability power applications still use them because they are essentially blow out proof short of continuous overload.