Hi shelsd,
I don know how you plan to limit the inrush current with an inductor, by the way, why don't you try to add a soft-start stage before the power stage? You could it with a Mosfet depending on the input power needed.
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I mean something like this, adding a resistor and a capacitor to the gate you can control the RDSon dinamically so it will charge the power capacitors slowly until RDSon is nearly 0Ohm. You can use a n-channel, connectic D to S line in the negative input and the gate control to the positive line. Moreover, with this circuit you give an extra anti-reversal protection for the input voltage.