Coil in high K powder

Apr 30, 2009 3 Replies

Does anyone know, or can speculate, what effect placing a solenoid coil in a high K dielectric such as TiO2 powder would have upon the generated composite field?



Mark Ferris


Guessing the magnetic field pattern will be unaffected however the interwinding capacitance may be higher.

D from BC myrealaddress(at)comic(dot)com BC, Canada Posted to usenet sci.electronics.design

A coil in dielectric? Probably negligible, other than interwinding capacitance, which could change the self-resonant frequency, but would that change even be measurable?

Why not just try it? (I'm a techie, not an academician - I do hands-on tests - when I've used only theory I've never gotten the right answer in practice.)

Another possible consideration: what are the powder's magnetic characteristics?

Cheers! Rich

First speculate on the bulk K of the powder. Even though the individual grains might be high K, I would bet the bulk K is not.

Regards, Adrian Jansen adrianjansen at internode dot on dot net Design Engineer J & K Micro Systems Microcomputer solutions for industrial control Note reply address is invalid, convert address above to machine form.

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