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Merits of Inductors vs. common mode choke for main line conditioning

Posted by Cleet Torres (A) on August 8, 2014 at 06:57:11

I have been dabbling in main line conditioning for a while now, but very much following a monkey see, monkey do approach. I am somewhat electrically “challenged”

Could somebody explain to me what the difference is between using inductors as to common mode chokes for filtering, and under which conditions one would be preferable. On the vast majority recipes I have come across the recipe has always followed the following format.

(I'm keeping it simple, many recipe's include MOV's and caps across the neutral live and live to ground and neutral to ground)


1.) capacitor(s) – common mode choke – capacitor(s)

or

2.) capacitor(s), -- pair of inductors, – capacitor, capacitor(s)


I have tried both. Both seem to work great and to be honest I have not been able to discern a difference between using a CMC or a pair of inductors.

Is there a benefit in using both?

Thanks
Cleet.

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