Re: Capacitor charge, were is it?

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• Subject: Re: Capacitor charge, were is it?
• From: Steve Roys <sroys-at-umabnet.ab.umd.edu>
• Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 09:29:03 -0500 (EST)

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

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