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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Burgess, post: 8494575, member: 105098&quot;]It&#039;s not 5th grade electricity, but its a wound coil or helix&nbsp; that increases the magnetic flux to increase&nbsp; inductance on a circuit.</p><p><br /></p><p>Inductance is a measure of the amount of magnetic flux produced for a given electric current.</p><p><br /></p><p>The inductance is proportional to the number of winds in a coil.</p><p>For most Inductors electricity flowing through the Inductors produces a magnetic flux</p><p><br /></p><p>Magnetic flux is a measure of a magnetic field that passes through a given area. The inducer &quot;tunes&quot; it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Inductors store energy in the form of a magnetic field, it&#039;s like a dam.</p><p><br /></p><p>So If I guessed at it, what it&#039;s does and used for is to measure and adjust the magnetic flux on a circuit, rather than do the calculations to figure it out on a sheet of paper and calculator, and change out the windings on the inducer, and may or may not be more accurate than the margins of human error that&#039;s involved with the calculation and people being lazy, because &quot;maths are hard&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>Useful for electric motors and their frequencies and harmonics I suppose, like generator tuning.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>And want to add now, thank you QuarterMaster![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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