Aaah...you mean catskill category....catch that one!
Inge 

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Sent: den 24 oktober 2006 10:54
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Subject: Re: [TN] NTC: Friday enigma.

That is a catastrophic, nay cataclysmic, explanation. Your silver epoxy
was a catalyst to the animal's demise, no doubt producing a catabatic
wind as it flew through the air. I trust it was buried in a catacomb
with much feline expressed by the family, the burial being paid for from
a kitty.

Brian

Inge wrote:
> So, if you connect the plus pole to the front legs on a cat ( a 
> catacitor), and the minus  to the rear legs, and also place your 
> sister (resister) in series, and switch on the 600 VDC supply, then 
> the cat will make a tremendous jump (inrush) but will come nowhere 
> because of your sister, who got 50 times the weight of the cat. But 
> the cat is charged with anger and will take any opportunity to kick 
> back. I understand that, but the rest is hard to see. So, you paint 
> one side of the cat with conductive silver epoxy, let it cure at room,

> which will take time as it follows an asymptotic curve.
> And after that you switch on again. And you say, that the cat can 
> never pull the cord again and  the cord can never slacken. The only 
> solution I can find, is that the cat died because  it disliked the 
> silver epoxy and tried to lick it off, and as the cat's gone, it can't

> pull the cord any more. So far OK, but why can't the cord slacken? 
> Your sister ought to give a shrill and run to the cat and take it up 
> and sob and pat the cat, and the cord will slacken. Your insisted 
> bilateral equipotential anticircumstance ....I can't fix  that.
>
> Inge
>
> PS. I'm still thinking that it's a 47 pF cap, because the end cap 
> silver has migrated across, silver has atomic number 47 and when the 
> circuit is switched on, you will here a tiny 'pFff' when the bridge 
> burns off, and the cap works again.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brian Ellis" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, October 23, 2006 5:23 PM
> Subject: Re: [TN] NTC: Friday enigma.
>
>
>> OK, the monetary value is obviously zero, as it is short-circuited by

>> the metal. But the enigma is its electrical value as a capacitor. If 
>> a capacitor is connected to a DC source via a resistor to limit the 
>> current, there will be an initial surge of current of a value 
>> determined by the source voltage and the resistance of the circuit, 
>> determined by Mr Ohm. The current will then decay exponentially as 
>> the capacitor charges, providing a back EMF to the source, heading 
>> towards an asymptote of zero (assuming a perfect capacitor), when it 
>> is fully charged. The higher the value of the capacitor, the higher 
>> will be the current after a given time, and the longer will be the 
>> decay curve. In this case, after the given time, the current will be 
>> the same as the initial value, indicating that the value of the 
>> capacitor will be infinity farads because it can never be charged to 
>> the source voltage and the charging current can never decay. :) :)
>>
>> Brian
>>
>> Brian Ellis wrote:
>>
>>> On http://stevezeva.homestead.com/files/c46.JPG there is an 'orrible

>>> photo of a ceramic capacitor. What is its value? :-) :-)
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