Help on parasitic resistance

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red007

Joined Apr 11, 2011
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Given the DC resistance of an inductor (from the datasheet), how can you calculate its parasitic resistance?
 

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Joined Dec 26, 2010
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It depends what you mean. The DC resistance is a parasitic resistance, but if you require an equivalent AC loss resistance for a coil, this will not have a simple relationship to the DC value. Other things like skin effect, eddy currents and hysteresis loss may come into play.
 
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