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George Herold 14 years ago

After posting I realized that a ferrite 'bead' is just like a one turn toroid. So it is pretty hard to couple in any field. It might be fun to try and measure. A one loop 'pick-up' coil versus a coil with a ferrite bead on it.

George H.

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John Larkin 14 years ago

Loops in the PCB trace layout will be better magnetic pickups than a ferrite bead.

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Nico Coesel 14 years ago

Thats way too expensive for such an old scope. I strongly doubt you can actually use this scope at 3GHz. It has BNC inputs (where most other equipment uses N or SMB for anything over 500MHz). There several offered on Ebay but they are not getting sold for 5k.

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Fred Bartoli 14 years ago

John Larkin a écrit :

And the comments above the wonderful circuit is pretty bad as well...

Thanks, Fred.

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Phil Hobbs 14 years ago

(a) You can buy four of them for the price of anything comparable new; (b) They work great. (c) Nobody spending his own money buys for what the dealers are asking.

I've got one on my shopping list for 2012--we'll see!

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

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John Larkin 14 years ago

BNCs work fine at 3 GHz. But you'd need active probes in a lot of situations, like snooping serial busses, and they can get expensive.

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Gerhard Hoffmann 14 years ago

Especially if there are unrelated pieces of ferrite sitting inside the loop, yelling "All you fluxes, come here, here is a well-paved road".

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John Larkin 14 years ago

A surface-mount ferrite bead is not much magnetic volume. I don't know how they are constructed, but I don't think they are coils... maybe just serpentines. Beads typically have a few uH of base indictance.

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This claims that beads are "closed magnetic circuits" and "inherently shielded."

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John Larkin 14 years ago

Yeah, could you please translate that into English for us?

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