On Thu, 14 Jan 2010, Terry Blanton wrote:
I seriously doubt it since the statement is false. IIRC, he said that the capacitor was too slow in current delivery. Actually, the
Well, that's true of supercapacitors. They take seconds to discharge during a direct short, not microseconds.
So if a large electrolytic has too small a value, parallel it with a supercap. That gives the sharp edge as well as the large value.
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