Can anyone identify this inductor?


Its a speaker crossover from a well known brand. Most coils on it are standard air coil style... but one looks like a transformer - wound vertically around a HUGE iron core which protrudes out the sides, then varnished/sealed and puttied to the board. Stamped with the company’s name on it. (All other components look sourced).

I reached out to the company waiting for an answer, so I won’t mention the name. But I don’t think they will reply.

Iron inductors seem like a no-no. In fact, I got huge coherency improvements by taking anti-static and EMI measures on it with some usual hi-fi tweak products. I do not know if they even tried to orient it correctly.

Anyone know? cheers

 

 

clustrocasual

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Iron inductors seem like a no-no. In fact, I got huge coherency improvements by taking anti-static and EMI measures on it with some usual hi-fi tweak products. I do not know if they even tried to orient it correctly.

Sounds like you identified it to me 😁 

Iron core inductors work just fine, in fact often better because their DC Resistance (DCR) is lower since they don't have to have nearly as much wire involved to reach a certain inductance value.