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If so, can anybody estimate their ratings? Or is there a way I can measure them? I'm looking for something around a 4mH inductor to use in "Simplest Ever DC-DC Boost 12v to 73v" instructable by "pyrohaz". Also, are these potential inductors the same as the ones found in CFL light bulbs? And one more thing, why does the small one have 4 wires coming out, the medium one has 2 wires, and the big one has 10?

Do inductors work with pulsed dc? like would they become more resistive with frequency? Or would they do nothing because it's not ac and the electrons can't "bump" into eachother.

How would one go about determining the milihenries value of an inductor coil pulled from an amplifier, well different ones I have found. And living up to it's standards, google has found me no information but what an inductor coil is and it's function, but no information on how to find inductance rating.

Once again, I come to you for help. I recently became interested in some kind of 555 device metal detector. The schematic calls for a 10mh inductor. However, my local Ripoffshack doesn't carry inductors, and instead I decided I could make my own. It's just a coil of wire right? Right, so I have some formulas to find inductance given things like length and width, and I wondered if there's anything I need to be aware of. Does a ferrite core increase inductance? Where can I get a ferrite core? Do I need one? Is there a sweet spot for inductors? Thanks, Mr. Merino

I have an 10mH inductor pressed against the active line of an extension cord connected to a load (a washing machine) that produces 9 amps. How do I measure the voltage produced by the inductor? Does it need to have a current already in order to react to the magnetic field? Does the negative lead produce a negative AC and the positive frequency such that if I attached a voltometer I would get a 0 reading? That's what I am getting even on my voltometer, even on the finest setting. I should be reading 0.09V, I believe.

I'm having a bit of trouble with an inductor implemented as part of a boost converter. The circuit works fine except for the inductor gets very hot within a few seconds after turning on. There are also noticeable high pitched noises coming from it associated with varying current loads. I'm not really sure what the issues are as the circuit is within the maximum DC current rating (circuit draws around 120mA, inductor is rated for 250mA) and resonant frequency is also quite low (around 1.5kHz). Datasheet for the inductor I used can be found here. Some help would be appreciated in determining what the problem is and in locating a suitable replacement inductor. Thanks.

Hey. I'm still learning a lot about electronics, and I'm still very new to that kind of thing, but am trying an electronics project for the Green contest anyway. I did some research on how step-up converters work and finally have settled on a circuit that would work for my project. My problem lies with one of the parts. I needed a 68uH inductor. When I ordered it, the picture below was what I got. This didn't seem quite right. It may be the correct thing, I don't know. So what I'm asking is... A. Is this the part I'm looking for? and B. How would I attach this to the PCB I'm etching for the project. Thanks in advance. My pic was a bit blurry so I found something that looked similar from the internet to go along with it.

This is a follow up post from this thread >> https://www.instructables.com/community/Guitar-Wah-Wah-Pedal-Help/ (It was about how to fix my Wah-Wah guitar pedal, it turns out the Inductor was not working, so I replaced it) I replaced a broken 500mh INDUCTOR in my guitar pedal with a new one. It works now. However, I am planning on keeping the broken inductor in my wah wah pedal (because it yielded a cool volume pedal sound). I want to rig up the circuit so that I can switch from from the GOOD conductor to the BAD conductor. My questions are: Will there be any major effects from having two inductors coupling? Should I be wary of the 'winding' of the coils? If so, what should I do in order to be consistent with the winding? And out of curiosity, how could I rig this up?  Here is the schematic >> http://www.voxamps.com/downloads/circuits/wahwah93.jpg 500mh Inductor = L1 I have 3 terminal DPST switch. This is how I imagine rigging it up: I'm thinking of having wires from the inductor terminals on the PCB wired to a terminal on the SWITCH, then to the INDUCTOR, and then back to the PCB. The same follows for the other (bad) inductor. If this is not clear, please let me know, or feel free to post a better way to rig this up. In summary for this last question How could I rig this circuit to switch between two inductors? Thanks.

I have, what I believe is, a neodymium ring magnet (pictured) that measures approximately 1.6 cm across x 0.3 cm thick and it has an inner diameter of of about 1 cm. I have been debating on what to do with it (also open to suggestions) hence the title. My question is how do I attempt to predict the performance of a coil created with this? 

I have an 2gen Ipod shuffle which I burnt. Now after a long while I found that an inductor cas destroyed. How can I find it's value?or Can I put a jumper instead?

 Is there any way, and I'm sure there is but I don't know how to do it, to make an inductor winder that is programable. Any type of microcontroller brand would work, be it arduino, parallax, pickaxe, whatever. Basically what I would need is a code, and a schematic that would drive two servos, one continuos rotation to do the actual winding and one to move the inductor back and forth, to keep an even winding going. The code would have to dictate how many turns the servo does in order to get the desired number of windings. It can even have to be reprogramed for every inductor from the PC, to keep it more simple. --Thanks         P.S. Sorry if this question was difficult to understand, I didn't know how to put into words what I                           had pictured in my mind...

I am building my own circuit, and i realized that i could buy a similar part for 10 dollars less.  Is this a possible substitute. thanks in advance.

I have an inductor which has a "562j" written on it. is it 5.6microHenry which has a 5% tolerance.i need your help.thanks!

I have some inductors harvested from an old power supply.They don't have an induction rating and I want to measure them.How do I do this?

I'm looking for information that might help me find a reactor for my variac setup. I noticed that almost every inductor I looked at has a Henry rating, I'm curious as to how this effects the circuit. After reading up on what a Henry is, I'm not sure I understand what it is exactly. I have also heard of people referring to inductors by their inductance, would they be referring to their Henry rating or their voltage/amperage rating? P.S. My variac is a 125/260v 11A military surplus, for all those interested.

I want to make a flyback driver, i need inductor 200 uH

Axial Inductor- i have a couple of these things, but have no idea what they do.  they look like a resistor.  can someone tell me what are they used for.  thanks

Can a digital capacitance meter measure the capacitance of an inductor?

I made this 1w emergency light circuit for the maximum output (consuming less power to deliver maximum brightnes) from the LED. But during its functioning, i found that the led glows with same brightness as it was without the circuit ( directly connecting it with battery). Please, suggest some alternatives or amendments to be made. I have uploaded an image of my circuit.

I am making a project where I need very small electromagnets to attract and hold a small metal flap closed when the circuit is turned on. Flap is about 1cm from the magnet and returns to this position via a spring when the circuit is off. In theory is it possible to use inductors used in electronic circuits (for interference suppression etc.) as an electromagnet? Thanks.

I am gathering the parts for an ible, but I am short one part: a 12mH inductor.I can spot some inductors in electronic garbage - the wire coiled around a ferrite loop - but there are also solid state inductors. Plus, the inductors are not usually labelled with their values.How can I measure the inductance of an inductor with a volt-meter and an ammeter, but without access to a sine-wave generator?Is there some simple trick that would get me "close enough" to the true value? What would be really useful (but probably doesn't exist) is a chart or formula where you plug in the size of the core and the number of turns around it and out pops the inductance value. ?

I am making a project and i needed a bit of help. I needed to make an inductor of 0.35mH and I do not have a shade of an idea how to make it. If anyone of you might help me i would me greatful to you. THANX.

I have been looking for the equation to determine a coils inductance in henries, but I can't find it. I want the one that uses core diameter, wire thickness, and wire length to calculate it. (But I'll take any equation that will allow me to calculate it easily without test equipment) Could someone help me out?                                                                                                                                                         Thanks!

I need help understanding a datasheet for some ferrite cores I bought to wind transformers on.  This is the datasheet: http://www.ferroxcube.com/prod/assets/tx513219.pdf.  The main thing I need to know is the inductance per turn of wire on the core so I can design the transformers to minimize inductive reactance and such.

Is there any difference between a coil and electromagnet? So, is saying that a dynamic speaker has coil as correct as saying that it has an electromagnet?

Every time I try to wind a toroid for a circuit, it never works or it is very temperamental and does not cooperate with me. Any advice on how to wind a better toroid?                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Thanks! 

I am trying to make a joule thief according to many websites and such, but it never seems to work, even if I follow the instructions. The joule thief I'm trying to make is one of the simplest, with a 1K resistor, transistor, tapped coil, etc. I think it may have something to do with the inductor, even though I've tried a whole different types. I got it to work once, though, when the 1K resistor was replace with a 10K resistor accidentally. I heard somewhere that the resistor should be around 1K up to 3K. Any higher and efficiency goes down. Is that true? And why doesn't the joule thief work when I use a 1K resistor instead of a 10K resistor? P.S: I have made many other joule thieves, my first one being from http://joulethief.com/kit.php, and my favourite, the supercharged joulethief from http://quantsuff.com/LED2.htm.

Can any one tell me how to make a 0.35mH inductor what will be the turns and what will be the coil dia.? the circuit is shown below.

I am trying to figure out how to keep a reed switch on by proximity to a magnet. I read that an inductor stores the current as a magnetic force, so I was planning on just having the reed switch close to the inductor, and just use a small magnet to close the circuit initially. i was hoping the field from the powered inductor would keep the switch closed. Am I on the right track?

The situation: I am using a contactor (like a big switch) to start a brushed permanent magnet DC motor. I am not using a motor controller. The motor is a Mars 0909 which draws 4.8 KW continuous and 15KW for 30 seconds The problem: This current can cause arcing at the contactor which can erode the contactor's electrical contact points and perhaps stress the batteries or blow a fuse needlessly. The goal: Reduce inrush while the motor starts up. The question: My teacher suggested I use a large inductor in series with the contactor. Theoretically the inductor would resist the initial inrush of current and then its resistance would go way down. We looked around a bit and didn't find any motors in series with an inductor in series. Is there a reason why inductors an not typically in series with motors? Is this something like a "Peterson coil" or an "arc suppression coil"? Any idea what the formula would be to calculate the size of such a coil?

I want to build a inductor coil for heating metals  i want schematics and how build this thank you

Just curious, I'm working on a Tesla coil and I've run out of wire 1/2 way down the secondary coil. Does anyone think I could just continue winding with another spool of wire and solder the 2 ends together?  Thanks!

Basically, can someone help me with this: http://www.alpharubicon.com/altenergy/understandingAC.htm ? What are the EXACT physics behind it?

My LCR meter can only read inductances of mH to a few Henries. I need to make a 470uH inductor, since in my place inductors are not so common. How can i measure inductances at microhenries if my LCR meter's reading capability only ranges from millihenries to henries? Someone told me to use bridges like wheatstone bridge or maxwell bridge to have an accurate reading, but i don't know how to do it. Can you suggest any reference? I prefer doing wheatstone. Thank you in advance :)

Im kind of interested in messing with some basic electronics (which i know very little about) and my question is if I have 2 dc devices that have a 900ma draw on both like 2 cell phones .... do I need 2 separate circuits that can handle the individual loads or do i need 1 circuit that outputs say 2a they both take what they need from?

I bought an assortment of components: resistors, diodes, capacitors, all mixed together on about a meter of cut tape from a reel for an automatic PCB populating machine. The original reel was marked as surplus from DEC and looks to be about 20 years old. One of the components is this black cylinder, like a very fat resistor, about 5 mm long and 3mm diameter. No resistance or diode action. Brittle and crack off with a pliers like ferrite. They do not melt or burn with a candle flame. The wire lead goes straight through and out the other side. Can be picked up by a magnet, but are not themselves magnets. They have no markings of any kind, but have shiny flecks. Are they some kind of magnetic tape position marker to tell the insertion machine what component is next? Say like a binary code?

Hey guys I need some help from the experts. I am building the microwave transformer ark welder instructable. I have acquired my microwave transformer, and rewound the secondarys. Now here's where it get interesting. I stay in South Africa, and we have 220v, 15amps coming out of the wall. So I figured with so much wall power I probably only need one transformer, cos I already have too many amps (on paper). So from what I understand, I will be putting 3300watts(220v*15Amps) into this transformer. Another interesting detail is that I think my transformer has 200 turns! I put 16 turns on the secondary (although there is space for more, I just don't have a piece of wire long enough). Which means that my out put voltage will be 17.6v, and 187Amps! Ahhhhhh!!!! If I wind a few more turns on the secondary, I could probably squeeze 25 on there, that will bring my output voltage to 27.5v and 120 amps. Which seems like quite a lot? So here's my question: Will this work? If not, and things go bad, what will happen? Is there any chance that the primary coils will melt, or is it only the secondarys that will do that? I don't really want to destroy my transformer, because they are really hard to get here. South Africans won't give you snow in winter. I had to buy a broken microwave! One idea I had: I have a single coil wrapped around a plate iron core, it looks just like a transformer but with only one set of windings. The thing is as big as the microwave transformer, its wire is of a slightly thicker gauge, and it probably has about 600 turns on it (it belonged to a florescent light setup). I thought I could connect this up to the secondary winding, maybe it will bring the amps down, and also serve as an inductor/ark stabilizer. But I'm just guessing, I'm a complete noob to electronics!?

If i have a battery that give me 16 M ohm and i would like to decrease the amount to a 1 ohm , if i try and put an inductor in parallel with the battery , it does decrease the amount , but the inductor and the battery get hot and may do damage , so i'm looking for a converter maybe to connect a battery to power transistor and then to an inductor or a transformer , not to increase voltage but to decrease impedance , anyone can help me through this? thank you

I am wondering if the would work as a flanger guitar pedal. For the variable inductor, I am planning on using a hand wound coil similar to one on an old crystal radio(quaker oat box one)

"An LCR circuit 1 is comprised of a capacitor 3, inductor 5, transformer T primary winding 9 and resistance 11 connected in series. It is assumed that the electrical conductors connecting the various circuit elements and forming the inductor 5 and primary winding 9 are perfect conductors; i.e., no DC resistance. Resistor 11 is a lump resistance equivalent to the total DC resistance of the actual circuit components and conductors. The inductor 5 is wound on a core 7"

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Are there any switched mode power supply formulas? I've been googling but I can't find anything... I need to know relation between duty cycle (I'm using square waves) frequency size (value) of the inductor output voltage output amperage how many amps should the inductor be rated for (is it how much your drawing?)

Can you give me a details of 10mh inductor? 1. The number of wires? 2. The number of turns? 3. The coil diameter? 4. The coil length? Thank you. I am hoping for your sonnest reply.

Looking at a crossover inside a speaker box, I see some inductor coils and capacitors. As  understand, it seems capacitors are high pass components, and inductors are the low pass components. What is the formula converting frequency in Hz into inductance of the inductor coil and/ or value of the capacitor. (I would be looking for a crossover around 30 - 40 Hz) To me, it seems logical to put this crossover not in the speaker box, but in front of the amplifiers, so the remaining audio spectrum can selectively amplified, which should result in some more power...  True? (I see some recommendations for active crossovers, but the theory is way over my head).

I want to understand inductor capacitor circuits for my rc-car. please can someone give a brief tutorial on 4 channel communication circuits. I have tried searching a lot .. I got to know that inductor and a capacitor together oscillate and create a certain frequency and emit it trouhg the antenna .. whereas the receiver ..through the antenna receives it and again the inductor capacitor circuit sorts out a certain freuency and lets it go ... then the capacitor or a diode(think so) removes all the further disturbances.... I want to know the whole circuit properly ... and which Integrated circuit to use ....