Canadian suplier of chokes.

[JoeBob]

I need a few chokes for a psu for a tube project. But I'd rather not import them fmor the states (heavy, shipping). So does anyone know of any good sources in canada? I don't need fancy parts, hammond of whatever is fine with me.

If worst comes to worst and I can't find a place to order one, could I just use half a transformer as a choke? After all half a transformer is pretty much an inductor, so it ain't air core, but if I can't find one...

 

[alvaius]

Solen out of the Montreal area..... www.solen.ca if I am thinking the right things. For general stuff, Digikey is very cost competitive.

 

[JoeBob]

Sorry if I didn't explain, for my psu I need large values. Several henries (10H would be ideal, but I could get away with 3H or more if I had to). And I've checked digikey before, and I just checked out solen, and they only have up to 30mH unfortunately...

 

[paulb]

Hammond's plant is in Guelph, Ontario, I believe, so any Hammond distributor should be able to order what you want. I don't know if Hammond does factory direct sales but you could give it a shot. Maybe a road trip is in order?
The discussion of using a transformer as a choke has come up before, and it seems to me somebody had some good reasons not to do it, but I don't remember the details.

 

[JoeBob]

Oh, thanks. I didn't know hammond was canadian. I checked out their distributor list and found a canadian one. Doesn't say where they're from, but I'll give it a shot. Thanks again.

 

[hifiZen]

Try Electrosonic at www.e-sonic.com. I used them a number of years ago when I built my last tube amp, and to my recollection, they carry the full Hammond product range.

 

[JoeBob]

Actually the hammond home page linked to electro-sonic as the only canadian distributor. So I ordered some torroids and chokes from them, too two days to get here, real good service.