A dictionary of electrical words, terms and phrases (1896)
Houston, Edwin J. (Edwin James), 1847-1914 · New York, The W.J. Johnston company · leaf 121
onducting covering orsheathing, which opposes the passage ofrapidly alternating currents less when directlyover the magnetizing coil than when a shortdistance from it. A term often used for choking-coil. (SeeCoil, Choking.) Coil, Reaction, Balanced A coil employed in asystem of distri-bution by… … A reaction coil is placed in the circuit of lamps inseries in a constant potential system. The sheath-ing of this coil is maintained in a balanced positionby the counter weight P, and the spring S. If nowa lamp is extinguished in the circuit, the increaseof current, due to decreased resistance,…
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