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Re: Capacitance
- To: tesla-at-xxxxxxxxxx
- Subject: Re: Capacitance
- From: Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 08:10:53 -0700
- Delivered-To: fixup-tesla-at-pupman-dot-com-at-fixme
- In-Reply-To: <40.37c303c.27454285-at-aol-dot-com>
Hi,
Capacitors either store energy, as in the primary capacitor, over time and
then suddenly release it all in a big bang. Or, they can act like filters
that try to keep the voltage at a stable value and clamp spikes.
Cheers,
Terry
At 09:00 AM 11/16/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>Why do you need to place any capacitance across the circuit at all?
>
>Is it to eliminate voltage spikes or in-rush currents?
>
>thanks
>