/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>1552491
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>doesn't measure anything before drilling/screwing
activates my autism

>>1476863
>>1476867
Thank you two for helping me. I really do appreciate it. I can't help but feel like a brainlet. Maybe this comes from me misunderstanding capacitors in the first place. I think I need to go back and learn more about RC circuits.

I am having trouble visualizing on paper the charging and discharging as well as the weird voltage divider. In LTSpice, I look at it and it makes sense but I can't translate it to the page. As for the voltage divider, I just don't see it. I even got out of bed after seeing both of your comments to try again.

On the positive half cycle the current will discharge and on the negative it will charge up the capacitor. These discharge and charging periods are not long enough to ever finish.

>If you make your time constant so high the circuit will never discharge
If that were to happen would Vc always be stuck at +10 V? The polarity of the cap is throwing me off as well.

>but if you split it up by where the current goes in each half-cycle
This is where I am lost in the sauce.

>The DC component of the current must be zero,
Why wouldn't the current be different in a charging (negative half) vs discharging (positive half)?