Re: Capacitor charge, were is it?

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• From: pgantt-at-ix-dot-netcom-dot-com
• Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 02:12:01 -0800

On 10/30/96 00:25:11 you wrote:
>
>>From sroys-at-umabnet.ab.umd.eduTue Oct 29 22:42:20 1996
>Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 09:29:03 -0500 (EST)
>From: Steve Roys <sroys-at-umabnet.ab.umd.edu>
>To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
>Subject: Re: Capacitor charge, were is it?
>
>On Mon, 28 Oct 1996, Tesla List wrote:
>
>> The vacuum diode conducts in one direction only because the plate is 
charged 
>> positively and the electrons are charged negatively.  If the vacuum were 
not 
>> a conductor, no electrons would flow in either direction.  Make sense?
>> 
>> Phil
>
>A vacuum diode passes charge when the heated cathode boils electrons off
>and they are drawn towards the anode.  If you turn the filament off, the
>vacuum diode stops conducting and becomes a vacuum capacitor.
>
>Steve Roys
>
>
  
Makes sense to me.  But the vacuum is still a conductor of electrons when 
the electrons are freed from the cathode.

Phil

Phil Gantt (pgantt-at-ix-dot-netcom-dot-com)
http://www-dot-netcom-dot-com/~pgantt/intro.html

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