I just want to know if i got the general idea of inductors downthey store current energy because when a magnetic field is running through the coils, a current is induced and adds up proportionally to the number of coils? does that explain how inductors store energy?
Inductors are the opposite of capacitors. At the moment you connect a voltage to a capacitor it behaves as a short circuit. The voltage across the capacitor at t0+ is zero but the current into the capacitor is the short circuit current (Thevenine equivalent). An inductor at t0+ behaves as an open circuit. The current into it is zero and the voltage across it is the open circuit voltage (Thevinine Equivalent again). The current into the inductor gradually increases depending on the L/R time constant and as the current increases thru the inductor, the voltage across it decreases. With a capacitor the current thru it slowly decreases and the voltage across it slowly increases. As the voltage on a capacitor increases, the energy in the capacitor increases, stored in the electric field in a charged capacitor. With an inductor, the stored energy increases in a magnetic field as a result of the current thru the inductor. The inductance of a coil is greater with more turns since the magnetic field is directly proprotional to the number of turns. The more current or the more turns the higher the field intensity and the more energy stored.
You are on the right track Are you only interested in stored energy? Have a read of this, Should help!
