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Perhaps an example will make it clear.
Suppose you have a coil which measures 1 uH at 1 MHz. It is known to have a self-resonant (parallel) frequency of 100 MHz. You measure its reactance at 1 MHz using the formula X=2*pi*F and find it to be 6.28 ohms. At 2 MHz you find it to be 12.56 ohms. At 10 MHz you find it to be 62.8 ohms. So far the reactance is changing linearly with respect to frequency. (Actually it is not perfectly linear, but the difference at these frequencies is small and probably would not be observed with run of the mill test equipment.) But, as you approach 100 MHz, you find the change is obviously no longer linear. At 95 MHz you would expect the reactance to be 6.28*95=596.6 ohms, but much to your surprise, it measures 1000 ohms. At 99 MHz, instead of the expected 6.28*99=621.72 ohms, it measures 50,000 ohms!! All the above is perfectly normal and easily observable. My point is that when a coil measures 50,000 ohms at 99 MHz, its inductance HAS TO BE L=X/(2*pi*F), or 50,000/(6.28*99)=80.4 uH! This is not an illusion. If you have an inductance meter which uses 99 MHz as a test frequency, it WILL MEASURE 80.4 uH. And therefore, I maintain that inductance DOES vary with frequency. How can it be otherwise? -- Bill, W6WRT The inductance is not changing. What you are measuring is not pure inductance but the coil has a stray capacitance. That is what is making the coil seof resonate. YOu did not say what hapens at 110 mhz, 200 mhz, and 500 mhz, if you did , it would measuer capacitance reactance. How do you change a coil into a capacitor ? You don't , but the effect of reactance has. Look at it this from a totally differant angle. You stick the leads of a DV voltmeter in the wall socket. It does not show any deflection other than maybe the first jump when it is plugged in. Does that mean there is no voltage or power in the circuit, I think not. Stick your fingers in it and see what hapens :-) Your method is flawed in the same way, you only measured inductance ( not really that , but the inductive reactance at a given frequency, but did not measuer capcitance. Where did the capacitance come from ? It is what makes the coil selfresonante. If you measuer a circuit that has inductance, capacitance and resistance, depending on if it is series or pareallel resonate here is what will hapen. As the frequency is increaced the inductance reactance will increace, it will measuer resistance at the reosnant frequency , then a large capacitance reactance and then a small capacitance reactance or else the reverse will hapen, capacitive reactance, resisstance, inductive reactance. However none of the actual inductance, capacitance or resistance values will change. YOu are confusing inductacne and reactance. YOu are only seeing one part of the big picture. YOu have to look at several formulars to see what is going on in a circuit that has inductance and capacitance. |
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