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Old March 20th 06, 07:23 AM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
Roy Lewallen
 
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Default Current through coils

Correction:

Roy Lewallen wrote:
K7ITM wrote:
. . .
It is also exactly this displacement current from a large coil that
allows the current at one end of the coil to be substantially different
from the current at the other end.


[I wrote:]
Yes again, with one slight modification. You'll note from the EZNEC
models that the current actually increases some as you go up from the
bottom of the inductor. This is the effect noted by King which is due to
imperfect coupling between turns. It results in currents at both ends
being less than at the center.


Tom's statement doesn't need modification, it's correct as written.
Imperfect coupling between turns causes current which is different at
the ends than in the middle. Tom said, correctly, that displacement
current is the cause of the currents at the ends being different from
each other.

Roy Lewallen, W7EL