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A common mode choke used to filter the mains input to a power supply.

The smallest value inductors consist of no more than a coil of thick wire standing up from the circuit board. Some small inductors consist of a toroid of ferrite with the coil of wire wound around it, and are easily spotted. In others, the coil is wound around a ferrite core shaped like a cotton reel, which may be fitted snugly inside a hollow cylinder of ferrite. A common mode choke has two windings, sometimes used to filter both the live and neutral feeds to a power supply. This then is essentially no different from a transformer.