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Where is the ESR

@thebugger
9 years ago
https://everycircuit.com/circuit/5878191725477888
Okay I'm having a little hard time finding the internal resistance of these components. It seems they have an infinite Q factor, and in oscillator circuits they should never decay, but I've seen decaying circuits here in EC. So let's see if I got this right. The inductor on the left has an absolute 0ohm DC resistance. In these conditions even 1aOhm would result in a 1kV voltage drop. It seems to be dropping 1kV but the time frame is too high. At 1s/s it doesn't drop any voltage. Okay for the capacitor the ESR test must be done with an AC source. So at 100MHz a capacitor of 1.59mF would have a reactance of 1uOhm. A simplified resistive voltage divider shows the exact same voltage drop as with the capacitor, thus there is no purely resistive component in the capacitor as well. And at the most left is a tuned circuit which shows some decay even if it's an insignificant one, hinting there must be ESR somewhere in the circuit. So from where does the ESR come from?
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