Reactance Coil - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: reactance coilChoking coil
A coil of small resistance and large inductance used in an alternating current circuit to impede or throttle the current or to change its phase called also reactance coil or reactor these terms being now preferred in engineering usage...
Reactance coil
A choking coil...
Reactance
The influence of a coil of wire upon an alternating current passing through it tending to choke or diminish the current or the similar influence of a condenser inductive resistance Reactance is measured in ohms The reactance of a circuit is equal to the component of the impressed electro motive force at right angles to the current divided by the current that is the component of the impedance due to the self inductance or capacity of the circuit...
Coil
To wind cylindrically or spirally as to coil a rope when not in use the snake coiled itself before springing...
coiled
curled or wound especially in concentric rings or spirals as a coiled snake ready to strike the rope lay coiled on the deck Opposite of uncoiled...
Inductance coil
A choking coil...
Ruhmkorffs coil
See Induction coil under Induction...
Fake
One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser as it lies in a coil a single turn or coil...
Master vibrator
In an internal combustion engine with two or more cylinders an induction coil and vibrator placed in the circuit between the battery or magneto and the coils for the different cylinders which are used without vibrators of their own...
Series winding
A winding in which the armature coil and the field magnet coil are in series with the external circuits opposed to shunt winding...
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