Neil Baylis wrote: > Why would they call that a reactor, rather than an inductor? > Any device which shifts the phase of current relative to the applied voltage has a property called "reactance". There can be capacitive reactance and inductive reactance. In the "old school" of electrical engineering, (that would be from about 1900 to 1930), capacitors were called condensers, and inductors were called reactors. Overexcited synchronous electric machines were even called synchronous condensers. Some EE terminology dates back to the days of Ben Franklin and static electric studies, I think that's where the condenser comes from, another term for the Leyden jar.
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