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Re: Dimensions of my flat spiral coil



Original poster: "Jim Lux by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <jimlux-at-earthlink-dot-net>

Only if the inductances weren't coupled to each other.  In this situation
they are very tightly coupled, so, as many have pointed out, it's just like
winding with litz wire.
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Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2002 6:56 AM
Subject: Re: Dimensions of my flat spiral coil


> Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<Goinbonkers-at-aol-dot-com>
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> Wouldn't the resulting inductance be one third of the individual
> inductances(average) if connected in parallel?
> Mike
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> > For all intents and purposes, if you told me that the three windings had
the
> > same inductance, your measurements would support that.  Interestingly,
if
> > you hook the windings in parallel, since they are very tightly coupled,
I'd
> > ballpark the resulting inductance at 9 times that of the single winding,
or
> > around 50-60 mH, just on the N^2 principle
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