Re: Caps in series

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• Subject: Re: Caps in series
• From: Grayson B Dietrich <electrofire-at-juno-dot-com> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)
• Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 16:42:34 -0600
• Approved: twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net
• Delivered-To: fixup-tesla-at-pupman-dot-com-at-fixme

Total series capacitance is:

1/Ct=(1/C1)+(1/C2)+(1/C3)...+(1/Cn)

Ct=totla capacitance
C1...n=each individual capacitance


-The Electrophile-
Grayson Dietrich
Medina, OH
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On Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:20:13 -0600 Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com> writes:
>Original Poster: Erthwin-at-aol-dot-com 
>
>I know that if I wire two 5Kv .01uF capacitors in series I'll end up 
>with a 
>10Kv .005uF cap but what happens when I put in a third capacitor that 
>has the 
>same ratings? does the uF rating drop by half again (15Kv .0025) or is 
>it 1/3 
>of the original rating now (15Kv .00333~)...or is there a completely 
>different set of equations for finding this out? I ask this because 
>I'm 
>planning on looking for some smaller voltage caps to wire in series 
>and from 
>the other visits I've made to my local surplus I doubt I'll find 
>anything 
>close to what I actually need so I might end up wiring a LOT of caps 
>in 
>parallel and in series to get the values I'm looking for.
>
>Left, left I hadda good brain but it left...
>---Daniel
>
>

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