Here's a link to one application where use of beads seems to be beneficial: http://www.edn.com/contents/images/6288040.pdf Jim Williams shows the results of a bead at the input to and output of a linear regulator used to regulate down from a switching supply. There are many applications where very quiet low currents are needed for circuitry such as clock fanouts or PLL circuits. In these cases the loads themselves may have very low switching currents, but require very low noise power. A good example is the use of ECL clock fanout parts running as PECL. The noise on VCC is directly coupled to the output, unlike when the part is run as ECL with VCC at ground. Jerry Johnson ------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from si-list: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field or to administer your membership from a web page, go to: //www.freelists.org/webpage/si-list For help: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'help' in the Subject field List FAQ wiki page is located at: http://si-list.org/wiki/wiki.pl?Si-List_FAQ List technical documents are available at: http://www.si-list.org List archives are viewable at: //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list or at our remote archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list/messages Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu