Russ... I'm trying to understand what shorting the coil does... does it just keep the inductor 'spinning' so it doesn't lose the momentum of the magnetic field?
The reason I ask is because I've been working on a circuit in the falstad circuit emulator, and I noticed it stopped working if the inductors 'spun down'... slamming open the n-MOSFETs downstream would stop the inductors from 'spinning', and when the n-MOSFETs closed again, it took awhile for the inductors to get 'spinning' again.
It appears that abruptly stopping all current flow kills the magnetic field in the inductors, which takes awhile to reestablish, but allowing even a small amount of current 'flow-through' keeps things working.
So, I set it up so that when current wasn't being pulled (or pushed) through the inductors, they had a separate path for current flow... back to the battery and into a few caps in the circuit. It seems to work. Of course, that's just a circuit emulator. It remains to be seen whether it works in meatspace.
So the specific question, "What is the hoped-for result of the coil-shorting?"
The reason I ask is because I've been working on a circuit in the falstad circuit emulator, and I noticed it stopped working if the inductors 'spun down'... slamming open the n-MOSFETs downstream would stop the inductors from 'spinning', and when the n-MOSFETs closed again, it took awhile for the inductors to get 'spinning' again.
It appears that abruptly stopping all current flow kills the magnetic field in the inductors, which takes awhile to reestablish, but allowing even a small amount of current 'flow-through' keeps things working.
So, I set it up so that when current wasn't being pulled (or pushed) through the inductors, they had a separate path for current flow... back to the battery and into a few caps in the circuit. It seems to work. Of course, that's just a circuit emulator. It remains to be seen whether it works in meatspace.
So the specific question, "What is the hoped-for result of the coil-shorting?"