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Re: wah inductor

7/26/2000 7:15 PM
Stuart	Re: wah inductor I made one recently. It has 1100 turns of 0.1mm (42swg) EC wire, which took a couple of hours to wind (not all at once - that would be really boring). The core is 3H1, 18mm dia x 10.5 mm high, which is the same as some of the old halo inductors. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find a source for these - I got this one from a scrap board at work, where it was used as a transformer. It came out at 535mH and 89 ohms dcr, compared to a genuine '67 halo of exactly 500mH and 83 ohms dcr. I think it sounds better than the Dunlop/Vox one, but I would say that - whether I'd pick it in a blind test is another matter... Unless you're really bloody minded like me, the easiest thing to do is buy one.

7/26/2000 7:15 PM

Stuart

Re: wah inductor

I made one recently. It has 1100 turns of 0.1mm (42swg) EC wire, which took a couple of hours to wind (not all at once - that would be really boring). The core is 3H1, 18mm dia x 10.5 mm high, which is the same as some of the old halo inductors. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find a source for these - I got this one from a scrap board at work, where it was used as a transformer.

It came out at 535mH and 89 ohms dcr, compared to a genuine '67 halo of exactly 500mH and 83 ohms dcr. I think it sounds better than the Dunlop/Vox one, but I would say that - whether I'd pick it in a blind test is another matter...

Unless you're really bloody minded like me, the easiest thing to do is buy one.

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Pete q{The core is 3H1, 18mm dia x 10.5 ... -- 7/26/2000 11:24 PM
Robert Strand That number of turns would imply th... -- 8/1/2000 4:53 AM