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How to Identify an Unknown Ferrite Rod

Mike Arasim, Product Manager for Power and Inductive Applications at Fair-Rite walks through the process of identifying the material of an unknown ferrite rod using some simple test equipment and Fair-Rite’s new Rod Permeability calculator tool.

7/21/2020 8:55:03 PM

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