Re: Inductor Dumb Question of the Day

Jan 26, 2008 1 Replies


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>>Jim Thomps>>> Is it possible to get a 1.2uH inductor that's still inductive at
>>> 600MHz ??
>>>
>>> ...Jim Thompson
>>
>>Sure. You do it using a coil wound as a tapered helix, with its point
>>towards the high-frequency side, backed up with SMT coils of increasing
>>inductance. It's done all the time in bias tees--I have one that's flat
>>within about +-1 dB from 20 kHz to 30 GHz.
>>
>>It would be difficult to make an inductor that still looked like 1.2 uH
>>at 600 MHz--it would resonate with 60 fF.
>>
>>Cheers,
>>
>>Phil Hobbs
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>What I'm trying to implement, cheaply, is a crossover network for a
>coax splitter: corner at 10MHz, impedance 75 Ohms, but "well behaved"
>at 600MHz.
>
>(G-job ;-)
>
> ...Jim Thompson

Do you mean


+-------Cap--------B | | A----------+ | | +-------Ind--------C


or something like that?



The inductor could just be composite. A lot depends on the passband separations; you'd need higher-order networks if they're close.



John


Well, that's a "higher order network". It could get more complex, if the crossover needs to be sharper. The single L+C would be OK if the signal bands are far apart. Some people use superconductive cavities for stuff like this.

John

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