What Do Rated Current Values Mean?

Würth Elektronik Watts Up Podcast

Rated current values found on datasheets serve as a guide for the selection of power inductors. However, the temperature rise in power inductors can be influenced by many factors that are not always reported in datasheets by all manufacturers giving a false sense of what the rated current values actually represent. In this podcast, we discuss how the behavior of a single inductor in different conditions demonstrates how different performance parameters may be used to gauge the performance of an inductor under application conditions.

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