Re: series capacicty

["Garth van Sittert" <garth-at-mediasupplies.co.za> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)]

You were right the first time
3 caps 3000V 3nF in series would yield:
9000V 1nF.

You must be careful that all the caps in series are exactly the same
otherwise voltage differences will exist between the caps.


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Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2000 12:27 AM
Subject: series capacicty


> 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 !
>
> 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)
>
>
>
>