The discussion focuses on the impact of coil wrapping direction on mutual inductance in inductors arranged in series with an iron core and yoke, along with a parallel capacitor. It concludes that when inductors are in series, they function as a single coil, and mutual inductance effectively becomes self-inductance. According to Lenz's law, the induced voltage and current will always oppose the applied voltage and current, making coil orientation irrelevant to inductive reactance, which is solely dependent on inductance.
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If they are in series, then you effectively have a single coil. Mutual inductance becomes self inductance (which is just inductive reactance). The induced voltage/current will always oppose the applied voltage/current (Lenz's law) regardless of how you orient the coils. Just thinking about it quickly, the inductive reactance should be the same regardless of the orientation - it depends only upon the inductance.Phaedrus said:I have 2 inductors in series...iron core...iron yoke...with a capacitor in parallel. For best mutual inductance, does it matter which direction each coil is wrapped...or maybe a better question would be how do you insure that the poles will be opposite every cycle so they are not working against each other?