Confused dude, and by orders of magnitude, dude

[Scott Gravenhorst]

"Bill Layer" <b.layer at vikingelectronics.com> wrote:
>Hi Scott, All,
>
>>If the time constant of an RC circuit is one second, how can the frequency
>>be 1/6 hz?  Isn't that 1 hz?  Isn't freq the reciprocal of the time
>>constant?
>
>The time constant is 1 second, which means it requires 1 second to charge,
>and 1 second to discharge, to complete a full cycle.
>
>Since we have a complete cycle every 2 seconds, I would say the frequency
>is 0.5Hz. based on the values given. 

For a triangle implementation yes, but for saw, it would then be very
close to 1 hz (given almost instantaneous discharge).  :o)

Bottom line here is that it cannot be 1/6 hz.

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