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. 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