I'm after some information regarding the cause of capacitive reactance which is part of the overall impedance of a circuit when carrying out loop impedance testing.
I am not an electrician so apologies if this is standard knowledge to some of you.
I understand how a capacitor works and what capacitance is. Since capacitive reactance is part of the three types of "resistance" of a circuit I am assuming that the reason this capacitive reactance is included is because twin and earth can to a lesser extent behave like a capacitor even when laid flat and not coiled? With AC power in the conductors I'm assuming that an weak electric field of attraction between the two conductors separated by the wire insulation forms. When the AC emf passes the peak of the emf in the sine wave and current "flow" is now in the opposite direction from what it was moments beforehand then the induced emf created by the electric field between the two conductors results in a small reactive current flowing in opposing direction to the main current hence capacitive reactance?
Thanks in advance
