[Elecraft] RFC 15 miniature?

[Don Wilhelm]

Bob,

Put the smaller tan bodied choke in for RFC15.
Elecraft switched to the larger choke after a goodly number of them were
destroyed during assembly - those ultra tiny ones do not permit much flexing
of the lead next to the body.

73,
Don W3FPR

> -----Original Message-----
>
> Hi Folks,
> I am building #5930 and I'm at the point of installing
> C91, C88 and RFC 15 on the bottom of the rf board at U4.  The
> manual talks
> about a miniature 100 uH choke, much smaller than the other 100
> uH chokes and
> with a tan body. I have 4 green bodied and one tan bodied 100 uH
> choke, but the tan bodied one is pretty close to the
> same size as the green ones, if any thing a little bigger. I have
> no miniature chokes at all  I'm sure I can
> solder it to the indicated location, but is this something I should be
> concerned about? Bernie W1AZ asked this same question on the list
> back in Sept.
> but I can't see where anyone answered him.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Bob   K6GGO
>
>
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