[time-nuts] Re: Death of a Capacitor

[Bob kb8tq]

Hi

Once you put big inductors in the ground path …. it’s not a common ground anymore.

Bob

> On Sep 26, 2021, at 6:53 PM, Gerhard Hoffmann <ghf at hoffmann-hochfrequenz.de> wrote:
> 
> 
> 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
> 
> 
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