On 01/14/2010 11:46 AM, Mark Iverson wrote: > Abd wrote: > > "And the answer was essentially to first give a bullshit answer, that a > capacitor couldn't supply > the "instantaneous current" needed. Put enough capacitance in there and you > could vaporize the > conductors if you shorted it." > > According to Sean, its not a matter of having "enough capacitance"... It's a > matter of "internal > resistance", and the internal resistance of a battery is less than a > capacitor;
No -- that statement is false. It's the other way around. Internal resistance of a cap is typically far, far lower than the internal resistance of a battery. This is widely known and supported by a lot of experimental evidence, done by lots of people, including myself. If you have any evidence to back your (or Sean's) claim that a battery is less resistive than a cap please provide it, and please specify the particular battery and cap which you are talking about. Compared with capacitors, batteries win on storage capacity, they might win on self discharge rate (or they might not), but they lose bigtime on internal resistance. > that's what's needed > to deliver a very sharp risetime current pulse. So, its really both, how > much and how fast; both > are req'd for Orbo to work. > > "And then, when the questioner asked a little more, he asked him to "dream > the dream a bit" and > talked about how important this could be. In other words, please stop asking > this inconvenient > question...." > > Didn't hear that comment... > > I've followed Steorn carefully, and do not think this is anything less than > what they claim it to > be... Regardless of whether it ends up as a mistake in their measurements or > not, they are not > con-artists... They are sincere. Either way, it won't take much longer to > determine that... A > matter of a few weeks. > > -Mark > > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 9.0.725 / Virus Database: 270.14.139/2620 - Release Date: 01/13/10 > 23:35:00 > >
