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Re: series capacicty



On 28 Jul 00, at 16:27, Tesla list wrote:

> Original poster: "J. Kooiman" <jkooi-at-wish-dot-net> 
> 
> Hi all, A while back I asked, that when I would put caps in series,
> that the voltage would be a total of the sum of all, and if the
> capacitance would be devided by the number of caps, the anser was
> no, the capacitance would stay the same, but my meter says
> different ! 

Your meter is correct.  WHO said "no" ????????

Malcolm

in other words if i take 3 caps, each 3000 Volts, 3mF
> Than that would be a total of 9000Volts with 1mF ???? at least
> that is waht my meter says. but some say that it would make 9000
> Volts with 3 mF ? so which one is it ?? geetings from Jeroen Kooiman
> from the Netherlands (Holland) 
> 
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