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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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I've got the parts but they were slow to arrive and now I'm in the vacation season so I haven't done the work yet.   I'm chaning all the inductors in my crossovers to wax/foil inductors. Some existing are iron core, some are not.   Replacements are Much larger.  the heaviest ones weight just over 5 lbs.  

Upgrading your inductors (and caps and resistors) is a fairly expensive but quite useful upgrade to most speakers under $50k.  And a good upgrade for many more expensive speakers as well.

Measure the inductance and order 2 upgraded replacements (one for each speaker).  While at it, upgrade other components on the crossover.  

Jerry

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