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Cost-effective Ferrite Chokes and Baluns
Web versionClick your way through the presentation
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Ferrite Chokes and Baluns
Topics:
1. Why might I need one?
2. What makes a good choke?
3. Three recommended designs
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Ferrite Chokes and Baluns
Topics:
1. Why might I need one?
2. What makes a good choke?
3. Three recommended designs
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Chokes and baluns: Why might I need one?
Q1: What are RF chokes for?
A: To stop RF currents from flowing where they aren’t wanted
…and so, to help solve EMC problems.
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Chokes and baluns: Why might I need one?
Q1: What are RF chokes for?
A: To stop RF currents from flowing where they aren’t wanted.
Q2: What are baluns for?
A: Er…to make my antenna balanced?
Wrong!
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Chokes and baluns: Why might I need one?
Q1: What are RF chokes for?A: To stop RF currents from flowing where they aren’t wanted.
Q2: What are baluns for? A: Exactly the same as for Q1: to stop RF currents from flowing where they aren’t wanted.
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Same as saying…No “common-mode”
RF current on feedline
Chokes and baluns: Why might I need one?
Fields around a balanced dipole: the textbook picture
Feedline doesn’t radiate
Feedline could be either coax or
parallel line
Only the antenna radiatesWRONG AGAIN
Real life isn’t like this!
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Chokes and baluns: Why might I need one?
Reality looks like this…
Common-modeRF current on feedlineHigh
risk of T V I
… or many other kinds of R F I (RF Interference)
Feedline radiates
Induces RF current on TV
downlead
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1. The inside of a coaxial cable is private – completely screened from the outside world.
2. At RF, current flows only on surfaces of conductors.
3. The outside surface of the coax shield is a completely separate conductor from the inside surface.
4. The outside surface of the shield is part of the outside world. This is where the common-mode currents flow.
Coax basics:
Antenna feedpoint
Common-mode current flows on outside surface
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Chokes and baluns: Why might I need one?
Common-mode RF current
RF earth
Mains earth
“RF in the Shack”
INJECTING RF into the mains
Feedline is radiating
Another example…
Coax-fed dipole
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Chokes and baluns: Why might I need one?
Answer: To block unwanted common-mode currents
“RF in the Shack”
INJECTING RF into the mains
Feedline is radiating
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Chokes and baluns: Why might I need one?
It all starts here: the antenna feedpoint
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Chokes and baluns: Why might I need one?
Common mode choke here
Common-mode RF current“RF in the Shack”
problems
RF into the mains
Feedline is radiating
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Chokes and baluns: Why might I need one?
Common mode choke here
Another choke here
Mains choke
More realistically, you may need two or three chokes:
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Chokes and baluns: Why might I need one?
Common mode choke here = “balun”
“Feedline choke”
“Mains choke”
The same chokes, doing the same job
Different names for (almost)the same chokes
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Chokes and baluns: Why might I need one?
The same chokes –same ferrite cores,same number of turns,same diameter.
Only the cable isdifferent, dependingon the application.
Because they’re all doing the same job – blocking unwanted common-mode RF current on that particular cable.
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Summary:
•To solve EMC problems
• Specifically… to stop RF currents flowing in the wrong places
• Chokes may be needed in several different places:
• at the antenna feedpoint (“a balun”)
• at other places on coax feedlines
• on other wiring in the shack (eg computer cables)
• on mains wiring.
• The same choke designs will work for a range of applications (only the cable and connectors need to change).
Chokes and baluns: Why might I need one?
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Ferrite Chokes and Baluns
Why might I need one?
Next:
What makes a good choke?
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Chokes and baluns: What makes a good choke?
Remember, this is an EMC problem.
• Some EMC problems are ‘soft’ and easy to solve – for these, almost any choke will give good results
• But some problems are much harder – these need chokes with much higher performance
• The curse of emc is, you never know which it will be…
So always aim for overkill – high-performance chokes
are far more likely to do the job.
The Curse of EMCis that every situation is different.
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Chokes and baluns: What makes a good choke?
What does “high performance” mean?
For hard EMC problems, that means…
• Impedance of several thousand ohms
• Maintained across a wide bandwidth
• Impedance must be mainly resistive
In any RF choke,high performance = high impedance
Why?
See the Radcom article.
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Chokes and baluns: What makes a good choke?
Chokes that don’t work well…or may only work for ‘soft’ EMC problems.
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Chokes and baluns: What makes a good choke?
Chokes that don’t work well
Air-wound chokes
What’s good:
1. Cheap and easy to make (only needs extra cable)
2. Lightweight
What’s bad:
3. Very narrow-band
4. Can easily be detuned in real-life situations.
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What’s good:
1. Broadband, mainly resistive impedance
What’s bad:
2. Usually not enough impedance (needs a large number of large beads of the right type)
3. Very expensive to do properly
4. Very long and heavy.
Chokes and baluns: What makes a good choke?
Chokes that don’t work well
Strings of ferrite beads
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Ferrite Chokes and Baluns
Why might I need one?
What makes a good choke?
Next:• Three recommended designs
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Chokes and baluns: Three recommended designs
Chokes that do work well
Ferrite cores and multiple turns
But you MUST:
• Use a good design
• Use the specified type of core.
Unknown surplus ferrite coresWILL NOT WORK!
For good results, use the right ingredients and follow the recipe.
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Thanks for reading!
73 from Ian GM3SEK