I guess you could say that once they saturate magnetically more power
from that point on will be a loss grin

Resistive wire losses as well. ie the balun gets hot (Altho saturation
also leads to temperature rise)

I am not that knowledible of baluns but note that the number of turns is
a compromise of sorts. The Xl is suppose to be some multiple of the Zo
and Zi (10x I think is a good number) Too high a number of turns and it
saturates at a lower power, too low and resistive losses become a factor..

I am prepared to be shot down on this.. I learn as I need to!. ie When I
need a balun I'll read up on them...!

Cheers Bob VK2YQA


wrote:
I had not thought of the losses that can occur in terms of db I wonder what
sort of losses occur due to the use of baluns?
Art