It's not the capacitor that is being multiplied, but the electrical
effect of the capacitance.

The physics of a capacitor device leads to a capacitance effect.

The transistor acts as a multiplier of the effect, not a multiplier of
capacitors.

On Fri, Mar 06, 2015 at 03:50:12PM +1300, Ryan O'Connor wrote:
> That page is really informative. However, I'm left wondering about the
> physics. How can a capacitor which stores charge possibly be "multiplied"
> without any additional storage?
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> Ryan
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> On 6 March 2015 at 02:46, Adam Field <adam@badtech.org> wrote:
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> > On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 12:17 PM, Bob Blick <bobblick@ftml.net> wrote:
> > > Hi Joe,
> > > You could use a one transistor pass element to multiply a capacitor. =
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> > > me see if I can find an example on the web... nope. here's napkin art=
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> > >
> > > Bob
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> > ESP has a good page on the concept:
> >
> > http://sound.westhost.com/project15.htm
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