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From: brucev@tekigm.UUCP (Bruce D. Virell)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: BSR X-10 Problems
Message-ID: <903@tekigm.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 29-Aug-86 17:14:15 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 29 17:14:15 1986
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Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR
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In article <6653@sun.uucp>, cmcmanis@sun.uucp (Chuck McManis) writes:
> 	. . . . .
>     please note that a lot of surge suppressors (and some home
> electronics equipment) connect two capacitors between the power
> line to ground like so :
> 		||		||
>      hot  +-----||------+-------||------+ return
> 		||	|	||
> 			+
> 		      ground
> These capacitors suppress noise by shunting it to ground (the 3dB 
> rolloff point is at about 50KHz) Last I heard the BSR's used a
> 200KHz carrier, if that is the case these cap's would look like 
  ^^^^^^ close, it's spec'd at 121KHz in the design info BSR sent out.
> very nearly dead shorts to ground.