XPost: sci.electronics.design   
   From: cd@notformail.com   
      
   On Mon, 04 Mar 2024 09:20:12 -0800, John Larkin    
   wrote:   
      
   >On Mon, 04 Mar 2024 15:50:21 +0000, Cursitor Doom    
   >wrote:   
   >   
   >>On Mon, 4 Mar 2024 15:29:02 +1100, Bill Sloman    
   >>wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>On 4/03/2024 5:03 am, Cursitor Doom wrote:   
   >>>> Hi all,   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Using my Peak ESR/Capacitance meter, I was carrying out in-circuit   
   >>>> checks on large electros in the linear PSU I've previously mentioned   
   >>>> here. I was getting a lot of "in-circuit/leaky" warnings for two of   
   >>>> them, so I pulled them out completely and am getting the same warning   
   >>>> when they're checked out of circuit, which surprised me as it's   
   >>>> unusual IME. Anyway, the leak would have to be very bad to result in   
   >>>> ripple, would it not? AFAIK, the leading culprit for ripple is caps   
   >>>> which have lost a significant amount of capacitance or else developed   
   >>>> a very large ESR.  Do I have that right?   
   >>>   
   >>>What you have wrong is the imagined association between leakage and ripple.   
   >>   
   >>Eh? I did say leakage was probably about the least likely cause of   
   >>ripple!   
   >   
   >Don't argue. Sloman is always right and everyone else is always wrong   
   >and stupid.   
      
   Much of that can be accounted for by the fact that Bill doesn't bother   
   reading others' comments in their entirety. He goes off 'half-cock'   
   and makes an ass of himself. That doesn't say much for his claims to   
   be a scientist.   
      
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