Seeking Someone to Do a Ferrites Project

Very nice kit!

They are great problem-solvers, getting rid of unwanted oscillations and suppressing noise. For anyone curious, for a certain frequency range, they act like a resistance (at a very high-level). There are different kinds of ferrites for different applications, but specifically, this is for those intended for "suppression", which is what this kit is for, i.e. designed to have high(ish) resistance at certain frequency ranges. Other ferrites may be intended for "inductive" applications, use-cases would include oscillators for instance.

It's sometimes easy to know because for companies like Wurth, they will provide nice detail: the red dashed line shows the resistance component at different frequencies. Many manufacturers won't provide such granular information, they may just mention the resistance at specific point frequencies.

I only have one ferrite kit for suppression, which is pretty ancient, and therefore so far have just been buying specific ferrites and this limits experimentation.

Wurth has many nice kits. I recently purchased a couple of Wurth inductor and capacitor kits. It's been a huge time-saver, having a range of parts on-hand. Great learning experience too, having the range of parts to experiment with.

Coilcraft has really neat inductor kits too (but the Wurth ones have a bigger selection!).

They end up being a lifetime supply since (I believe) Wurth and Coilcraft will replenish the kit forever (provided the kit is used fairly).

I might have a capacitor kit it to throw in as well. I was straightening out our office storeroom and saw them. I'll check when I go in the office again on Tuesday. More info then. Have a nice weekend.

Randall

I will be getting 3 kits to give out for projects. The kit has a lot of components and it doesn't go for pennies (or a pence). 

Randall

As you're thinking, I'd like to say to all that since it will be placed in a learning module, the project can be basic or complex. We are thinking that adding some projects would make the module more interesting than just mentioning product specs.

Thanks.

Randall

This is where you can read the datasheet. Click here

To get an itemized breakdown of each component in the kit, click this link.

AS I said above, I'd send you the whole kit. If you need something else, send me that to. I'll see if I can get anything that's reasonable. Thanks.

Randall

I will be interesting to see what road testers come up with. I've used ferrites to reduce EMI when designing to pass military EMI/EMC standards, but I don't have access to the anechoic chamber and instrumentation needed to measure performance at home.

Interesting! Can I get more details of the kit? Like what components are there in the kit.

I have a few ideas that use ferrites, for example baluns and mixers. I have used toroidal shaped ferrites before for designing RF mixers.

This should be an interesting one. Certainly something I need to learn more about..! Looking forward to more on this!

This is quite interesting.  Ferrites to me are used to control noise (electrical) and improve inductors - but SMD ferrites?  I do look forward to the Essentials module and seeing what someone does with the kit.

This looks like it's awesome. I've always wanted to do something with magnets and ferrite !

Will try and think of something..