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mounts directly onto a printed circuit board by its leads.
Such devices offer high efficiency and mounting ease,
but at a somewhat higher cost than molded inductors.
Ferrite Cores (Pot Cores)
Pot cores are very popular as switch-mode power sup-
ply applications since they offer high performance and
ease of design. The coils are generally wound on a plas-
tic bobbin, which is then placed between two pot core
sections. A simple clip to hold the core sections together
completes the inductor. Smaller pot cores mount direct-
ly onto printed circuit boards via the bobbin terminals.
Cores come in a wide variety of sizes often with the cen-
ter posts ground down to provide an air gap. The gap
prevents saturation while accurately defining the induc-
tance per turn squared.
Pot cores are suitable for all DC-DC converters, but are
usually used in the higher power applications. They are
also useful for experimentation since it is easy to wind
coils onto the plastic bobbins.
Toroidal Cores
In volume production, the toroidal core offers high per-
formance, low size and weight, and low cost. They are,
however, slightly more difficult for prototyping, in that
manually winding turns onto a toroid is more tedious
than on the plastic bobbins used with pot cores. Toroids
are more efficient for a given size since the flux is more
evenly distributed than in a pot core, where the effective
core area differs between the post, side, top, and bot-
tom.
Since it is difficult to gap a toroid, manufacturers pro-
duce toroids using a mixture of ferromagnetic powder
(typically iron or Mo-Permalloy powder) and a binder.
The permeability is controlled by varying the amount of
binder, which changes the effective gap between the
ferromagnetic particles. Mo-Permally powder (MFP)
cores have lower losses and are recommended for the
highest efficiency, while iron powder cores are lower
cost.
COIL AND CORE MANUFACTURERS Table 1
TYPE
TYPICAL
MANUFACTURER
PART #
Molded
”
”
”
”
Potted Toroidal
”
”
”
Toroidal Core
”
”
Ferrite Core
”
Dale
Cadell-Burns
Gowanda
Nytronics
TRW
Dale
Gowanda
TRW
Torotel Prod.
Allen Bradley
Siemans
Magnetics
Stackpole
Magnetics
1HA-104
7070-29
1B253
WEE-470
LL-500
TE-3Q4TA
050AT1003
MH-1
PT 53-18
T0451S100A
B64290-K38-X38
555130
57-3215
G-41408-25
DESCRIPTION
500 µH, 0.5 ohms
220 µH, 0.55 ohms
250 µH, 0.44 ohms
470 µH, 10 ohms
500 µH, 0.75 ohms
1 mH, 0.82 ohms
100 µH, 0.05 ohms
600 µH, 1.9 ohms
500 uH, 5 ohms
500 nH/T2
4 µH/T2
53 nH/T2
14 mm x 8 mm
14 x 8, 250 nH/T2
Note:
This list does not constitute an endorsement by Dallas Semiconductor and is not intended to be a
comprehensive list of all manufacturers of these components.
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