Electronic – Theory: With an AC circuit adding capacitors will cause the current trend towards leading

capacitorgyratorimpedanceinductanceinductive

so if you add enough caps can you emulate what an inductor is doing, ie. Lead the current so far that it appears to be lagging?

I assume this doesn't work, why not?

Best Answer

You can simulate an inductor with capacitors, but you need additional circuitry to invert its impedance, and there are limitations on what you can simulate with it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyrator