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In Reply to: Great results with battery ground tweak posted by Paul_A on July 31, 2015 at 19:51:56:
I have been wondering why it could be that huge amounts of capacitance, as first reported by UncleStu, seem to augment the positive effects of the BGT. It occurs to me that very large value aluminum electrolytic capacitors tend to have more leakage current than do smaller value ones. (The leakage current is still on the order of micro-amps, so we are not talking about a grossly defective capacitor, just an imperfect one by design.) So perhaps there is a positive effect due to the fact that with a relatively leaky capacitor placed across the pos and neg poles of the battery, an actual circuit is created. As a result of that, whatever the BGT may do to augment the ground plane is done better when there is actually some electron flow. But like Stu mentioned, this does not at all explain why a film bypass capacitor results in a further subjective improvement; a non defective film cap should have zero leakage.
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