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Magnetics® is a leading world supplier of precision soft magnetic components and materials to the electronics industry. We specialize in research, design, and production of a broad range of high-quality powder cores, ferrite cores, and strip wound cores for applications such as chokes, inductors, filters, transformers, and power supply components for use in alternative energy, telecommunications, aerospace, automotive, military, computer, medical, and other electronics systems.

Parylene C

28 Jul 2010 | Jason Hare
Magnetics offers several coatings each having different properties. For the smallest increase in size over the bare core dimensions and good dielectric strength, Parylene C® is the choice coating.
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Advantages of Soft Saturation Curve

12 Jul 2010 | Zack Cataldi
Discussion on the advantages of a soft satuartion curve when designing an inductor.
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Voltage Breakdown for Powder Cores

21 May 2010 | Zack Cataldi
Magnetics testing procedure for guaranteed voltage breakdown of toroidal powder cores.
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Measuring Inductance of Square Loop Materials

08 May 2010 | Bill Glass
Magnetics offers various tape wound core materials such as 80% nickel-iron alloys (Permalloy), 50% nickel-iron alloys (Orthonol, Alloy 48), 3% grain-oriented silicon-iron alloy (Magnesil), and a highly refined 50% cobalt-iron alloy (Supermendur).
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Core Types for Transformers and Inductors

07 May 2010 | Jason Hare
Desirable materials for transformer cores are those that have a high flux density and keep the temperature rise within desirable limits.
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Expected Inductance compared to Measured Inductance

22 Apr 2010 | Zack Cataldi
Toroid inductance measurements can differ from expected inductance measurements depending on winding configuration
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Keeping a Magnetic Core from Saturating

16 Apr 2010 | Donna Kepcia
A question often asked by a magnetics designer is, “How do I keep a core from saturating?” The rule of thumb says that voltage saturates a transformer, current saturates an inductor. But what does this mean?
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Advantages of Kool Mu® Compared with Gapped Ferrite

06 Apr 2010 | Jason Hare
Inductors can be designed using several types of materials. Two of the most common are Ferrite (with discrete gaps) and Powder Core (distributed gap materials).
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Coating Code Definitions

29 Mar 2010 | Bill Glass
Magnetics’ toroids, whether Powder Core, Ferrite, or Tape Wound, are offered with coatings that make winding easier, improve voltage breakdown, add breakstrength and provide a tough, wax tight, moisture and chemical resistant barrier.
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Part Numbering for Tall Height Powder Core Toroids

22 Mar 2010 | Zack Cataldi
Magnetics now offers customizable heights on standard Kool Mu, MPP and High Flux toroid powder cores. Adjusting the pressed height of powder core toroids offers several advantages.
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