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Old 4th Aug 2018, 3:08 pm   #19
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Default Re: SBL-1 Mixer

The likes of Amidon:

http://www.amidoncorp.com/43-materia...perture-cores/

still offer their range of 'classic' binocular ferrites.

You don't strictly need a two-hole ferrite for winding the balance-transformers: two single-hole beads side-by-side work rather well.: I've built bifilar transformers for the crystal-filter in SSB generators using this technique and found no difference compared to a binocular.

In the past I also worked on a range of HF/VHF power-amplifiers whose 'balanced' push-pull driver/output transformers were made from two parallel lengths of silver-plated copper tube about 3/4 inch diameter, with sets of ferrite rings threaded over them, and silver-plated copper plates silver-soldered to the ends to provide a 'single turn' - PTFE-insulated coax was then threaded through the holes to provide the primary winding.
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