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It would actually charge your inductor. The energy stored in an inductor is proportional to current running through it. This is key to the action of a boost converter.

The physical equivalent of an inductor is a flywheel, which makes it much easier to visualize.




My point is that measuring voltage with low-impedance is essentially introducing a short, which is not really a useful thing to do for most circuits. Bad things tend to happen.




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