Hi Guys
I’ve been winding a lot of chokes lately to measure what I attenuation I get out of them with a signal generator & scope.
This is mainly to help me make a table of a readily available but undocumented Iron powder core toroids available locally.
Over 3 different size cores, my results have been filters from 39MHz down to 530kHz.

I’m wondering now if you used a choke on the input of of a DC SSR, and another on the high current load output
(obviously a higher current choke on that side), would they sum like inductors in series,
or would one attenuate superimposed AC on the signal even further than the other?
Cheers, Art.

 

The there is little EMI generated on the input to a SSR, so I don't see that putting a choke there will have much effect.
Certainly it will have little effect on any EMI generated by the output.

 

Where are you expecting to get those frequencies from?, chokes are usually used in various switching circuits of which a SSR output is just an ON/OFF condition.
Max.

 

Where are you expecting to get those frequencies from?, chokes are usually used in various switching circuits of which a SSR output is just an ON/OFF condition.
Max.

But an SSR can generate a pulse of EMI when it is turned ON or OFF.

 

Hi, yes I wasn’t talking about the edge of the DC relay switching, but maybe the load itself.
I might anticipate a choke used on the DC power supply of a linear amplifier for example.
If there were other equipment behind the switching of the DC SSRs,
it might provide peace of mind to use another choke of the same frequency to further attenuate RF again at the SSR input side.

I can’t say that I’ve tested whether superimposed RF is effectively isolated by the
DC SSR (from the switching input to the load terminals) the way DC would be.

 

Very rare to use a common mode choke or other on a DC SSR.
Normally the equipment behind it is isolated via the SSR.
What type of load are you anticipating for the SSR?
Max.