Re: [Vo]:Back EMF vs Inductor Energy Storage

2009-12-31 Thread Terry Blanton
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 10:13 PM, Stephen A. Lawrence sa...@pobox.com wrote: Consequently the induced voltages won't exactly cancel and there will be a BEMF. Thanks, Stephen. Agreed; and, indeed you can see some of that BEMF in the scope trace ripple in some of the replications on youtube.

Re: [Vo]:Back EMF vs Inductor Energy Storage

2009-12-30 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
On 12/30/2009 07:00 PM, Terry Blanton wrote: Gnorts, Vorts, Some of us are confusing the issues above. Energy cannot be stored in an inductor because there are no magnetic charge carriers. Hence, when trying to open the circuit on an inductor, the magnetic field WILL COLLAPSE. This

RE: [Vo]:Back EMF vs Inductor Energy Storage

2009-12-30 Thread Mark Iverson
The energy is stored in the mag fld, not the inductor. Also, I've seen orbos that seemed to have a core with the toroid, and some that didn't, or at least it certainly didn't look like there was a core. I also was under the impression that the stator cores were NOT PMs, but simply iron cores.