Current is NOT infinite in real-world conditions. I agree wholeheartedly.

|From: James Nelson
|
|Now, L may be small but NOT zero, since it is defined by the loop of the
|high voltage wiring and circuit to the tube, and capaticance is small.
|Current will always be limited. Go ahead and do the math.

        If you had a CRT that was truly a PERFECT capacitor, with NO resistance and
NO inductance in the circuit, the capacitor would discharge infinitely fast
with an impulse of infinite current. In the real world, with finite path
inductance and resistance and imperfect dielectrics, the discharge current
will NOT be infinite. Period. We're both correct here, since we're saying
the same thing.

        I just want to make sure everyone knows what I meant in the paragraph
noted: Inductance, capacitance, and resistance cause electronics to take
time to move from one place to another. And with time being involved with
the very nature of circuits, there will never be an instantaneous (taking NO
time whatsoever) change in potential causing infinite current. It's
impossible with what we have around us today.

        Thanks go to Planck, Einstein, Schrodinger and Hawking for my understanding
of the aforementioned information.

        It seems we're both on the same road.

        John

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