Re: changing capacitance

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Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>

Hi Christopher,

When you put caps in parallel, the values simply add.  However, when you
put caps in series, the total values is divided up.  See the formulas at:

http://www.tpub-dot-com/neets/book2/6.htm

For parallel:

Ct = C1+C2+C3+...

For Series:

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

So if you put three 10uF caps in series, you end up with 3.333uF.

Cheers,

	Terry

At 10:59 PM 12/26/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>I was wondering if you wired capacitors in sires would there be more 
>capacitance totaled for them all? Sorry about my ignorance in these things. 
>thanks for any help.
>
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>                                     christopher
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