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Okay it's pretty simple, i just came by this method myself. There's a way to measure capacitors too, by the way, but it's hard to represent it here in EC. Let's start with inductors. What happens when a pulse is injected in a parallel LC circuit? It starts ringing, at its resonant frequency. The two things you need to know is the value of the capacitor in the circuit, and the resonant frequency (you'll need an oscilloscope to measure this). Most of the times this method will give you a result with a 10% margin of error. So let's go through it step by step:
1st, you need to inject the LC circuit with a fast rise/fall impulse with an appropriate frequency. Usually every frequency will do, but if the frequency is too low, the dampening will be too high and it'll be harder to measure. Let's use here in the example 100Khz.
2. You need to measure the decaying oscillations frequency. Here in EC, the oscilloscope will show it directly, in reality you must measure it (assuming you have an oscilloscope, you surely know how to measure frequency). With a lot of oversampling i measured 1.58MHz
3. Now we use the formula Fr= 1/ 2п.sqrt.L.C and substitute to find the inductor. The formula takes shape L= 1/(2пFr)^2.C. [uH]
4. Let's do the math. L=1/(2x3.14x1.58)^2.0.001= 10.14uH, with a margin of error 1.4%
5. You can use Electrodroid to calculate the value of the inductor. Once you have the two constants (frequency, capacitance), it can accurately find the 3rd (inductance).
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