W5DXP wrote:

wrote:
Assuming that P = V x I, the power is 0, always.
This seems to be at odds with explanation that SGCL#1's power is
dissipated in SGCL#2's circulator load resistor since there is no
energy flowing at the voltage maximum.

Nope, a directional coupler can still separate out the forward
and reflected waves even at voltage and current nulls.

It is a bit early to move to the complexity of directional couplers.
I am still stuck on how energy can flow through a point on the circuit
where the current or voltage is always 0.

Using instantaneous Power = Vinst x Iinst, the power at such a point
must always be 0, leading to the conclusion that no energy is flowing.

So how does energy flow through a point in the circuit where the voltage
or current is always 0.

Is it that Pinst != Vinst x Iinst?
Or is it that there is no point in the ideal experiment presented where
V or I is always 0?
Or have I missed something in the chain of reasoning above?

....Keith

wrote:
It is a bit early to move to the complexity of directional couplers.
I am still stuck on how energy can flow through a point on the circuit
where the current or voltage is always 0.

There are two voltages and two currents. Sometimes they are 180 degrees
out of phase and their sum is zero. But those waves don't know each
other exists. Someone forgot to tell them that they aren't supposed
to carry any energy so they just keep on carrying energy.

Using instantaneous Power = Vinst x Iinst, the power at such a point
must always be 0, leading to the conclusion that no energy is flowing.

No *NET* energy is flowing but the forward energy and reflected energy
just keep on flowing, carrying an equal amount of energy in each direction.
In a transmission line with reflections, there are always forward and reflected
transactions. Please don't be seduced by the steady-state religion.
--
73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp



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Keith wrote:
"So how does energy flow through a point in the circuit where the
voltage or current is always 0?"

The "0" is the sum of two voltages produced by adding together equal and
opposite voltages in two waves which are passing through each other with
no effect on each other.

Conductors producing the volts and amps from the waves they carry are
actually "bucket brigades". Distributed inductance and capacitance pass
along charges in a travel direction, or in both directions. There is no
problem as charges moving in opposite directions swell and shrink
occupancy at certain spots on the line. They don`t overflow, and charges
moving in each direction, like Ole Man River, they "jes keep movin`
along".

Best regards, Richard Harrison, KB5WZI