Hello,
I am trying to understand what eddy currents are.
Let's write up a scenario:
I have a coil of wire not connected to a load (open circuit). It is being exposed to a changing magnetic field. This changing magnetic field induces a voltage into the coil but current does not flow because their is no load.
I now connect the coil to a load. Because of the impedance of the load a current will begin to flow.
From the googling I have done so far, it seems that the current flowing in the coil is actually an eddy current?
If this is the case then if I were to add a core into this coil, an eddy current will flow in this core but how could it since this core is not part of a closed circuit so the current has not where to flow?
I am trying to understand what eddy currents are.
Let's write up a scenario:
I have a coil of wire not connected to a load (open circuit). It is being exposed to a changing magnetic field. This changing magnetic field induces a voltage into the coil but current does not flow because their is no load.
I now connect the coil to a load. Because of the impedance of the load a current will begin to flow.
From the googling I have done so far, it seems that the current flowing in the coil is actually an eddy current?
If this is the case then if I were to add a core into this coil, an eddy current will flow in this core but how could it since this core is not part of a closed circuit so the current has not where to flow?