Well George, I can put a guess. What I feel is that the shield may act has a short circuit secondary of a transformer formed by the flux linkage with the inductor being the primary of the Xmer. Thus, because of the mutual effect between the two windings, reactance may vary as you have noticed. Best Regards Gaurav. -----Original Message----- From: GEORGE VARGHESE [mailto:rfengg@xxxxxxxxx]=20 Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 5:09 PM To: si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [SI-LIST] Inductance variation. Hi All, I have one more very interesting observation regarding inductors at RF when in the presence of a conducting shield.=20 =20 When I put a high valued inductor close to a copper shield and observe the reactance on a VNA , the reactance seems to decrease at lower frequencies and the reactance increases at higher frequncies when the shield is put near the inductor. What I mean is that , the presence of the copper shield causes the reactance to decrease at the lower frequencies (20Mhz) and increase at higher frequencies (100Mhz) . Can anybody tell me the reason for this? Regards, George. =20 _____________________________________________________________ Get 25MB, POP3, Spam Filtering with LYCOS MAIL PLUS for $19.95/year. http://login.mail.lycos.com/brandPage.shtml?pageId=3Dplus&ref=3Dlmtplus ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 archives are viewable at: =20 //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list or at our remote archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list/messages=20 Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu =20 **************************Disclaimer************************************ Information contained in this E-MAIL being proprietary to Wipro Limited is= =20 'privileged' and 'confidential' and intended for use only by the individual or entity to which it is addressed. You are notified that any use, copying= =20 or dissemination of the information contained in the E-MAIL in any manner=20 whatsoever is strictly prohibited. *************************************************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 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