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Comment by WalterBright

I'm curious why a large capacitor or inductor cannot be used to provide momentary power for things like electric motor starts, and to smooth out events like a plane briefly occluding the sun.

I built an audio amplifier in college that had a couple of huge capacitors on the power supply (about the size of a can of soda). It would keep the amp running a few seconds after I shut off the power.

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