From: John Larkin on
On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 09:23:18 -0500, John Fields
<jfields(a)austininstruments.com> wrote:

>On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 07:40:48 -0500, John Fields
><jfields(a)austininstruments.com> wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 07 Jul 2010 17:54:26 -0700, John Larkin
>><jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:
>>
>>>On Wed, 07 Jul 2010 18:57:11 -0500, John Fields
>>><jfields(a)austininstruments.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>On Wed, 07 Jul 2010 13:00:12 -0700, Jim Thompson
>>>><To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon(a)On-My-Web-Site.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Larkin vaguely started his thread with no mention of an inductor
>>>>>whatsoever, then added the inductor and claimed "sloshing" forever.
>>>
>>>I said that certain posts were untrue. Which they were.
>>>
>>>>
>>>>---
>>>>Yeah, well, Larkin claims a lot of things are absolutely true which
>>>>break down around zero and infinity.
>>>
>>>Cite?
>>
>>---
>>Well, the one that always brings a grin to my chops is: "Latching
>>relays have infinite gain."
>>
>>There are others, but they slip my mind and it's just not worth the
>>effort to find them.
>>---
>>
>>>>>What-a-pile of BS...
>>>>>use real switches and real inductors and real
>>>>>capacitors.
>>>>
>>>>---
>>>>Indeed.
>>>
>>>It helps to understand ideal circuits before you consider real
>>>circuits. The ideals are the limiting cases. You CAN transfer charge
>>>between equal value caps without loss of charge, and you can more
>>>generally transfer energy between caps without loss; just use an
>>>inductor.
>>>
>>>For those who dislike theory, Spice will slosh charge around between
>>>two caps for millions of cycles. Try it.
>>
>>---
>>OK
>
>---
>Oops...

Remember what Miss Denton said: Check Your Work!

John


From: John Fields on
On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 08:35:15 -0700, John Larkin
<jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:

>On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 09:36:26 -0500, John Fields
><jfields(a)austininstruments.com> wrote:
>
>>On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 06:13:53 -0700, AM
>><thisthatandtheother(a)beherenow.org> wrote:
>>
>>>On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 07:40:48 -0500, John Fields
>>><jfields(a)austininstruments.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>With the 0.1�F caps and 1mH coil shown, we have a frequency of ~
>>>>22.5kHz and an inductive reactance of ~ 141 ohms which, for a Q of 200
>>>>which you used in another post, calls for about 0.7 ohms of resistance
>>>>in the circuit.
>>>>
>>>>I included it as the series resistance of the choke and, as reported
>>>>back by LTspice, once the charged cap is connected to the LC, the
>>>>circuit starts ringing, and after about 20ms (to be generous) decays
>>>>to essentially zero.
>>>>
>>>>Thus we have a decaying 20ms period populated by 46�s wide cycles, for
>>>>a total of about 435 cycles, a far cry from your claimed "millions of
>>>>cycles".
>>>
>>>
>>> Which proves that something is lost, or the process has a cost, as each
>>>cycle is decaying.
>>>
>>> It requires 'work' to 'cast' the electrons 'across' the face of the
>>>plates. :-)
>>>
>>> Kind of like playing "Trouble". The surface gets crowded with
>>>electrons and a few get lost when the pressures bump around.
>>
>>---
>>Mostly it's the resistance of the choke which causes the decay.
>>
>>Right-click on the choke and then clear the box that says "series
>>resistance" and run the sim.
>>
>>Surprise!
>>
>>
>>JF
>
>What happens? Does it oscillate for millions of cycles?

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Don't ask me, I might confuse you with a reply you don't want to
understand.

Instead, just run the sim and find out for yourself.
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>In fact, it oscillates for millions of cycles even when the Q is 200.
>Eventually Spice will run out of floating-point precision, but that's
>just Spice.

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And in the real world you'll run into noise before you hit millions of
cycles, but that's just the real world.

From earlier:

>>>>I included it as the series resistance of the choke and, as reported
>>>>back by LTspice, once the charged cap is connected to the LC, the
>>>>circuit starts ringing, and after about 20ms (to be generous) decays
>>>>to essentially zero.

what is it you don't understand about "essentially zero"?

From: Jim Thompson on
On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 08:43:26 -0700, John Larkin
<jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:

[snip]
>
> YOU DON'T NEED SPICE TO UNDERSTAND CIRCUITS THIS SIMPLE.
>
>John

You seem to ;-)

You need to learn to set up LTspice without all its simulation
speed-ups in place... then you can see reality instead of ideality.

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From: AM on
On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 08:32:12 -0700, John Larkin
<jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:

>basic R-L-C

I thought you said that you removed the R.
From: John Fields on
On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 08:43:26 -0700, John Larkin
<jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:


>How in the world could you post anything that wrong?

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What did you fing wrong with it that wasn't fixed in version 2?
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>If you actually
>ran it, and accepted the results, well, there's nothing polite I can
>say.

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You, polite???

Well, that's the best laugh I've had this morning! Thanks.
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>So let me say this as quietly as I can:
>
> YOU DON'T NEED SPICE TO UNDERSTAND CIRCUITS THIS SIMPLE.

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IT'S NICE TO HAVE THOUGH, IN ORDER TO EASILY SHOW YOU UP FOR THE
BULLSHITTER YOU ARE.

JF