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What is saturation current of ELC09D-221 (220uH) inductor?

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Reference the L vs I curves on page one. Saturation is usually defined as a 20-40% drop in inductance.

EDIT: Nevermind that appears to be a part selection guide. I've also never seen an inductor datasheet quite like this.

And I wouldn't normally assume anything about the relationship between saturation and rated current. They can often be quite different (and either one can be larger).
 
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I agree in so far that it might be interesting to know if the rated current of a particular inductor, e.g. the said 220 uH type, is defined by thermal considerations or 10 % inductance drop. In the former case, the inductor is capable of carrying a higher ripple current.

You'll either use a more completely specified inductor or measure it yourself.
 

Thanks FvM, that's brilliant, we will change to the Wurth 7447452221

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The RLB0914 is some five times cheaper though, and its difficult to say which has the higher saturation current..because even though RLB0914-221 datasheet says its got higher isat....its irms is less than Wurth 7447452221.....so the Bourns one looks worse...and is physically smaller...so the wurth one is kind of more believable

bOURNS RLB0914-221 (220uH)
https://www.bourns.com/docs/Product-Datasheets/rlb.pdf

Wurth 7447452221 (220uH)
https://katalog.we-online.de/pbs/datasheet/7447452221.pdf
 

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