Re: series capacicty

["Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz" <acmq-at-compuland-dot-com.br> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)]

Tesla list wrote:
> 
> Original poster: "J. Kooiman" <jkooi-at-wish-dot-net>

> 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.

What Nature says is always the truth :-)

> but some say that it would make 9000 Volts with 3 mF ?

No way. Three identical capacitors in series have only 1/3 of the
applied
voltage over each of them. The charge required for this is just 1/3 of
the charge required to charge a single capacitor to the same voltage.
Capacitance is the ratio between charge and voltage. If the charge is
divided by 3, the capacitance is divided too.

Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz