Jim Wilkins wrote:

"Michael A. Terrell" wrote in message
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Jim Wilkins wrote:

"Michael A. Terrell" wrote in message
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A large, powdered iron toroid works even better. Like an old 3A
variac. I needed a modulation transformer for a AM mobile radio
back in the '70s. I wound a second winding on a surplus 88 mH
telco
toroid, and had excessive audio bandwidth.

However a coiled sheetmetal 3 Amp Variac core may not work at all.
The
response of one I measured fell to nothing above 600Hz.


Some are wound, some are powdered iron. The one I had may have
been
from a 400 Hz unit.

The type that was useless for audio was a General Electric Volt-Pac,
model 9T92A1, 50/60Hz.


The cores I'm talking about are the same powdered iron used for power
line filters. I've used a Variac to match a speaker to the speakers on a
factory floor after a fire. No idea what was in the box, it was in the
company's boneyard and in a steel box. There are literally tons of
surplus ferrite cores on Ebay, in almost any shape you can imagine.


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