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2024-02-11 Calculations: Ferrite Loopstick for a Crystal Set

I think this came from a crystal set made in Japan during the mid-20th century.  It has a ball on the end of the ferrite rod like the crystal sets that were shaped like a rocket and this ball was at the rocket’s nose.  The coil measures 38 to 380 microhenrys depending on the position

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2020-03-10 Simple AM Band Antenna Tuning Coil 240 Microhenrys

The standard ferrite antenna loopstick for a 365 pF tuning capacitor has an inductance of about 230 microhenrys. This in combination with the tuning capacitor tunes across the full AM broadcast band. It’s useful to be able to wind your own inductor so it can be used for an antenna coil, a trap to attenuate

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2020-02-21

I found that 100 uH was a good all around value for these solar garden light circuits. But at the time I made these around 2009 the 5252 4 legged chip was uncommon and almost all the garden lights used 2 discrete transistors. I don’t know why they started using the 4 legged 5252 –

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2018-09-07 Q of an Inductor

from FB group Building Transistor Radios, 2018-09-07 Tom Miller Say a capacitor or inductor has a Q of 100. The losses are about 1/100 of the energy in the component. In a tuned circuit the capacitor Q is usually much higher than this – it has lower losses, so the more important is the Q

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2017-06-02 I Built Another Oscillator For AM BCB

I pulled a pill bottle out of my junk box, it had a single layer of solid enameled wire wound on it, and it measured 85 microhenrys.  So I added the transistor, resistors and the capacitors to get it to oscillate at the low end of the AM BCB, around 540 kHz. The schem is

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2016-09-05 Ferrite Cores At Radio Frequencies

I have always thought that using ferrite toroid cores for radio projects at HFs and above was not necessary, because all of the RF circuit parts lists call for low permeability powdered iron cores. I’ve never given it much thought; about the only thing that crossed my mind was that the powdered iron cores may

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2016-06-05 Toroid Cores 10 mm .4 Inch Green

I was on eBay and saw some small green ferrite toroid cores, ten for 99 cents including shipping.  I figured that since I had bought some larger green cores a few weeks ago and liked them, I couldn’t go wrong buying these since they were less than ten cents apiece. They were sent from an

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2016-06-04 Crystal Radio Coils, Crystal Diodes

I was reading some of Geo John’s projects and came across a crystal radio set that he built using two tuned coils. A crystal radio set refers to the type of detector used, which was once a galena crystal and a ‘catwhisker’ to find a sensitive spot on the crystal. Nowadays, that is no longer

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2016-05-28 The Five For A Dollar Toroid Core Is Back

A few years ago the Joule Thief fans and others built many projects with a very popular toroid core that was sold from Electronic Goldmine, a surplus electronics company, for the affordable price of five for a dollar.  Eventually the supply was all sold and it was no longer available.  The stock # was G6683.

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2016-05-16 Tape Wound Toroid Core From Surplus Sales

Long ago I built DC-DC converters using a toroid made with tape wound core. The cores were about 2 inches O.D. and we used regular 12 AWG solid insulated house wire for the primary windings. Even so, these cores vibrated a lot at several hundred Hz, making a screeching noise. I saw some very small

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