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Back EMF High Voltage Spikes on the Oscilloscope - Part 1

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A scope demonstration of the voltage spike an inductor or relay coil produces when switched off, used to explain why flyback diodes matter.

Watch for: Spikes can reach hundreds of volts; mind your scope's input rating

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From videos on Youtube: [video] and other sources I found out the back EMF spikes usually reach very high voltages even above 400V.

Daniel Vela Jarquín on electronics.stackexchange.com, Nov 2020. CC BY-SA.

In this video you can see that the voltage spike reaches 400 volts in 20 microseconds.

jDo on raspberrypi.stackexchange.com, Mar 2016. CC BY-SA.

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