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Inductor losses and other news

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jan-petrikJan Petrik 04/24/2017 at 22:370 Comments

It turned out that new inductors are not really better than old one(SRP6540-3R3). At least comparing real part of impedance (the part that is responsible for losses). One of the WE part is 4.7uH instead of 3.3uH. WE design tool was quite certain that I can get away with it. We'll see :)

They may be cooler than the original part, due to having bigger size/better cooling ability. Measuring C/W is next on the list + in circuit testing.

I'm leaving for OMICRON Lab Power Analysis & Design Symposium tomorrow. Last year was rather nice, hopefully this year will be even better. Then I'll be off for some traveling on weekend. So no more updates from me for rest of the week.

Mjjg from DiyAudio has received his PiDSP, so he can continue with linux driver development. Also one of my friend is joining in on driver development. So driver team is twice the size of HW team :)

Oh, and I've ordered enclosure and started working on the front panel design.

And that would be all for today.

P.S.: I'm still looking for quality mechanical rotary encoder with smooth action. I've tested just few, but so far it seems that optical ones are in different league. The feel of optical encoder is really nice...

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