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Re:Continuing frequency deviation in the Continental Europea... by radiowave on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @09:16AM (#16536450)
I imagine that they might cancel out, given limitless current flows between them. In practice, something would go bang long before that happened.
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Re:Continuing frequency deviation in the Continental Europea... by XorNot on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @04:52PM (#16540262)
You're missing resistance losses, essentially. They would do no work (no real power component to the load impedance mismatch) but I^2 * R means the complex component would be entirely lost to transmission lines / coil windings.

But the effect is as you say: something goes bang.

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