Frank wrote:

Is this what you are talking about?

"The same analogy applies to springs and to shock absorbers;
the spring stores energy when stretched; the shock-absorber
stores energy when compressed. Both the spring and shock
absorber will return energy at some time and this exhibit reactance!"

I think we have been at cross purposes. The above is nonsense.


Exactly! That was the point, repeatedly made by others, at the time of
the original posting.

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Aero Spike