Sherpa Doug wrote, in part:
>[responding to my (MV's) question about inductors]
>Capacitors tend to create constant voltage.  Inductors tend to create
>constant current.

Duh, I should have realized that! I guess I did, after all,
qualify for the "stupid question" label. Oh well. (As Dogbert once
said in response to the "there's no such thing as a stupid
question" thing: "Oh really? Then what kind of questions do stupid
people ask? Do they become smart just in time to ask a question?").

Still, that leads to another thought:
>Logic could be designed to work with
>constant current instead of constant voltage in which case inductors
>would see more use.

So maybe a series inductor would make sense on the output of a
constant current source? It looks like the argument for a (parallel)
capacitor at the output of a constant voltage source could be
transformed into an argument for a (series) inductor at the output
of a constant current source. Is this generally done?

Michael V

Thank you for reading my stupid posting.


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