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Originally Posted by varmonter
Now that i have reread this post the capacitor issue
Seems more likely.dont capacitors charge up and
Discharge.this would explain the delay in time
It takes to hear your noise.the cap charging.
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Thanks for the reply - but just how long do you think it takes a cap to charge??? I currently work as a technical trainer at a power plant and I can't let a gross conceptual error slide without attempting to correct it. I was also an electronics tech in the USN for over 8 years. Capacitors are basically used in RC (resistor-capacitor) or RL (resistor-inductor) circuits. The charge time is determined by the time constant, which depends on the value of the resistance and capacitance in the circuit. It takes five time constants for a cap to charge or discharge. In most RC circuits the time constant is in the micro to millisecond range. Holy crap for a cap to take an hour to charge up it would litterally have to be bigger than a house!!!! They just don't use caps like that in any consumer electronics.