balun (balanced/unbalanced)

A passive device, often a transformer, used to couple an electrically bal-

anced device, medium, or system and an electrically unbalanced device, medium, or system. A balun commonly is used to connect an electrically balanced twisted pair to an electrically unbalanced coaxial cable.

The term balun is a contraction of balanced to unbalanced transformer. See also balanced, coaxial cable, passive, transformer, twisted pair, and unbalanced.

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