Measuring Feline Capacitance

Re:Measuring Feline Capacitance by ChuckMcM on Sunday February 08, 2015 @02:07AM (#9016637)

I am not a cat fan, or a squirrel fan. I do know from observing squirrels crossing power lines that their dielectric constant is significantly lower than that of air, but I've never figured out how to determine it strictly from observation without actually doing an empirical measurement.

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Re:Measuring Feline Capacitance by monkeymagic on Sunday February 08, 2015 @04:57AM (#9016874)

Squirrels act as inductors in DC circuits. Only once though. There's a high current surge that drops to zero as they turn rapidly into a carbon resistor!

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Re:Measuring Feline Capacitance by kabdib on Sunday February 08, 2015 @09:34AM (#9017314)

We had a number of network outages at Apple due to squirrels inserting themselves in the NOC's power lines.

Note to self: Don't design any circuits that incorporate these animals. Squirrels make terrible fuses.

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Re:Measuring Feline Capacitance by monkeymagic on Sunday February 08, 2015 @03:44PM (#9018486)

So true.

We had a different problem. They chewed through the fibre cables between our offices to get the fiberglass sheath for their nests. Eventually they ran Ethernet underground because they'd have broken it again in a couple of weeks.

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Re:Measuring Feline Capacitance by kabdib on Wednesday February 11, 2015 @11:47PM (#9037429)

Whereupon: Moles :-)

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Re:Measuring Feline Capacitance by walshemj on Sunday February 08, 2015 @06:07AM (#9016953)

a bit like the NED Noise Emitting Diode - makes a lound noise once

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Re:Measuring Feline Capacitance by monkeymagic on Sunday February 08, 2015 @06:29AM (#9016981)

Having sat there, as a teenager, with a whole bag of 1N4148s and a mains test block, can confirm :)

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