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Are these any good for RF use or should they go into the trash?
It depends on what they were doing on that motherboard. If they were part of an RF interference filter, they may have other RF uses. If they were the energy storage inductor in a switching regulator, they may have their best performance under 1 MHz. You might look up some of the common color codes and standard core sizes, and measure the inductance and calculate the permeability of your cores to see if they match any of the code specs. This could help to nail down the useful frequency range. ================================ A practical way to determine suitability at HF and higher is to fit the toroid with a bifilar winding ,being the primary and secondary of a transformer. Connect a signal generator to one winding and a RF millivolt meter or scope to the other. By changing the frequency you quickly know in which frequency range the toroid will be useful. Usually 'blue' coloured toroids are ferrites for the lower frequencies serving in SMPSes and AC supply filters. Frank GM0CSZ / KN6WH |
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