Talk:Inductor

Induction loop

I suspect that the new Induction loop article needs to be merged with another (this one?); it certianly needs a lot of work by someone who knows what they're doing. Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 13:12, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)

No kidding; Is there much in that article that's salvagable?

And shouldn't it be about the gadgets used to tap phones and detect cars at traffic signals?

Atlant 13:29, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Deletion of old history section

I had hopped to save some bandwidth but if I must: First, it is wrong. Stanley didn’t invent the first practical induction coil as stated. Inductions coils had been around for fifty years before that and Ruhmkorff was building excellent ones in 1850. What Stanley’s patent did cover was a version of an AC transformer that proved to be practical and similar to modern transformers. Since patents require titles and there was not yet a word for the device, he used whatever words were handy. The patent was titled “Induction Coil”. Mr. Stanley’s contribution is covered in transformer where it belongs. It has nothing to do with the Inductor article. This history section was left over here as a remnant of some confusion in terminology from a year ago. Let us recreate a history section only when we have something applicable to put into it. Meggar 05:58, 2005 Jun 8 (UTC)

Thank you for that explanation.

Atlant 11:47, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Parallels with Capacitor

In the Capacitor article, they have a lovely section about Impedance and phaser voltage. Could we add one here too? I came here to find out $Z_{L}={\frac {V_{L}}{I_{L}}}=2\pi jfL=j\omega L=jX_{L}$ because I couldn't remember it for my homework, but it isn't here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.200.130.99 (talk) 23:13, 14 October 2008‎ (UTC)

Active Inductors

Active (or emulated) inductors are made with an op-amp and a capacitor, replicating circuit-math/function of an inductor. I think this might be a worthwhile sub-sub-topic to add somewhere, but I'm not sure where it fits. 24.77.19.163 (talk) 02:30, 21 October 2025 (UTC)

We do have simulated inductors. Constant314 (talk) 06:57, 21 October 2025 (UTC)

Please explain why you made the deletion

Dear Constant314, Please explain the reason for the deletion. Thanks, Ronavni (talk)

The edit was deleted as WP:UNDUE. WP:COATRACK and WP:EVERYTHING give additional insight. The material you added needs reliable secondary sources to establish that it is not just some obscure academic research. Since it was published in 1994, there has been plenty of time for the ideal to make it into secondary sources.