[time-nuts] Re: Death of a Capacitor

[Gerhard Hoffmann]

Am 27.09.21 um 00:34 schrieb Bob kb8tq:
> Hi
>
> If you start dumping major current spikes into a common ground, it’s amazingly difficult to
> get rid of the results.

First Principles know the law of the conservation of spikes:

Capacitors convert voltage spikes to current spikes.

Inductors convert current spikes to voltage spikes.

Gerhard


(who just has fun with a new  LMX2594 synthesizer board.

10 MHz to 15 GHz, 2 cm**2, 20 dBm, limited amount of empty

boards available for free. Soldering them is NOT harmless.)