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BenandAmber
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Joined: 16/02/2019
Location: United States
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Posted: 02:02am 06 May 2019
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This is not my ad

I bought some capacitors off this guy

now I'm buying a couple of these to make a bigger choke for my 10000 watt China board and the other one for the power Jack

This guy bought out a inverter company that went under so all these parts were originally bought for inverters

Oh yeah and since I bought two of them he sold them to me a little bit cheaper 41 bucks for two of them


I'm not sure if these are ferrite or not they're kind of heavy

Not laminated definitely ferrite








He has a lot of other miscellaneous inverter Parts also that he sells on eBayEdited by BenandAmber 2019-05-17
be warned i am good parrot but Dumber than a box of rocks
 
Warpspeed
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Posted: 06:25am 06 Mar 2020
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There is enough information there to reverse engineer that.

Green/yellow core looks like Micrometals powdered iron mix 40.

Part number T520-40D which is the largest size available. 5.2" OD, 3.08" ID, height 1.6"

Published Al value 240nH for one turn.  Fifty one turns 51 x 51 x .24uH = 624uH which is pretty close to what you measured.
It very likely has 50 turns.

Looking at the magnetization curve, it has a very soft saturation characteristic.
At 100 Orsteads about 40% of initial permeability.
That works out to 40% of 624uH = 250uH at 52 amps.

At 200 Orsteads about 22% of 624uH = 55uH at 104 amps.

All very nice, and pretty fair value for $31 US dollars.
That's about roughly $50 Aussie bux.

Nice find Ben.
Cheers,  Tony.
 
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