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Chapter 13
  • Inductance and Inductors
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Inductors
  • Common form of an inductor is a coil of wire
    • Used in radio tuning circuits
  • In fluorescent lights
    • Part of ballast circuit
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Inductors
  • On power systems
    • Part of the protection circuitry used to control short-circuit currents during faults
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Electromagnetic Induction
  • Voltage is induced
    • When a magnet moves through a coil of wire
    • When a conductor moves through a magnetic field
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Electromagnetic Induction
  • Change in current in one coil can induce a voltage in a second coil
  • Change in current in a coil can induce a voltage in that coil
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Electromagnetic Induction
  • Faraday’s Law
    • Voltage is induced in a circuit whenever the flux linking the circuit is changing
    • Magnitude of voltage is proportional to rate of change of the flux linkages with respect to time
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Electromagnetic Induction
  • Lenz’s Law
    • Polarity of the induced voltage opposes the cause producing it
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Induced Voltage and Induction
  • If a constant current is applied
    • No voltage is induced
  • If current is increased
    • Inductor will develop a voltage with a polarity to oppose increase
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Induced Voltage and Induction
  • If current is decreased
    • Voltage is formed with a polarity that opposes decrease
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Iron-Core Inductors
  • Have flux almost entirely confined to their cores
  • Flux lines pass through the windings
  • Flux linkage as product
    • Flux times number of turns
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Iron-Core Inductors
  • By Faraday’s law
    • Induced voltage is equal to rate of change of NF
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Air-Core Inductors
  • All flux lines do not pass through all of the windings
  • Flux is directly proportional to current
  • Induced voltage directly proportional to rate of change of current
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Self-Inductance
  • Voltage induced in a coil is proportional to rate of change of the current
  • Proportionality constant is L
    • Self-inductance of the coil-units are Henrys (H)
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Self-Inductance
  • Inductance of a coil is one Henry
    • If the voltage created by its changing current is one volt
    • When its current changes at rate of one amp per second
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Inductance Formulas
  • Inductance of a coil is given by



  • l  is the length of coil in meters
  • A is cross-sectional area in square meters
  • N is number of turns
  • µ is permeability of core
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Inductance Formulas
  • If air gap is used, formula for inductance is


  • Where µo is permeability of air
  • Ag is area of air gap
  • lg is length of gap
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Computing Induced Voltage
  • When using equation



    • If current is increasing, voltage is positive
    • If current is decreasing, voltage is negative
    • Di/Dt is slope for currents described with straight lines
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Inductances in Series
  • For inductors in series
    • Total inductance is sum of individual inductors (similar to resistors in series)
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Inductances in Parallel
  • Inductors in parallel add as resistors do in parallel
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Core Types
  • Type of core depends on intended use and frequency range
  • For audio or power supply applications
    • Inductors with iron cores are generally used
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Core Types
  • Iron-core inductors
    • Large inductance values but have large power losses at high frequencies
  • For high-frequency applications
    • Ferrite-core inductors are used
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Variable Inductors
  • Used in tuning circuits
  • Inductance may be varied by changing the coil spacing
  • Inductance may be changed by moving a core in or out
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Circuit Symbols
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Stray Capacitance
  • Turns of inductors are separated by insulation
    • May cause stray or parasitic capacitance
  • At low frequencies, it can be ignored
    • At high frequencies, it must be taken into account
  • Some coils are wound in multiple sections to reduce stray capacitance
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Stray Inductance
  • Current-carrying components have some stray inductance
    • Due to magnetic effects of current
  • Leads of resistors, capacitors, etc. have inductance
    • These leads are often cut short to reduce stray inductance
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Inductance and Steady State DC
  • Voltage across an inductance with constant dc current is zero
  • Since it has current but no voltage, it looks like a short circuit at steady state
  • For non-ideal inductors
    • Resistance of windings must be considered
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Energy Stored by an Inductance
  • When energy flows into an inductor
    • Energy is stored in its magnetic field
  • When the field collapses
    • Energy returns to the circuit
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Energy Stored by an Inductance
  • No power is dissipated, so there is no power loss
  • Energy stored is given by
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Troubleshooting Hints
  • Use ohmmeter
  • Open coil will have infinite resistance
  • Coil can develop shorts between its windings causing excessive current
    • Checking with an ohmmeter may indicate lower resistance