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Thanks, AJ! This confirms my thoughts. I did google the topic before and found a source which said an inductor will hold a charge/energy and needs to be discharged, but I am unable to locate that source, now. It was something I came across and wanted to verify the reliability of the source.

Let me explain where I'm coming from with this. I was told I needed to discharge an inductor used in a simple LR circuit before completing the circuit. Theoretically, this makes no sense as the inductor should not be charged/storing energy outside of a circuit. Is there really a need to...

I understand that in an ideal world, an inductor will not hold a charge (when not connected to a circuit). Ideally, there would need to be a current through the inductor to generate a B-field to store energy. I once read, that (since this is not an ideal world), an inductor actually CAN and...