RE: Capacitor - series?

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Original poster: "Randy & Lori" <rburney6-at-comcast-dot-net> 

Stacking in series will give you the calculated capacitance (the
reciprocal of the sum of the reciprocals), but the voltage rating will
not work like you are thinking.  If you have 5 capacitors rated at 2KV,
you can stack them for 10KV because what matters is the difference of
potential felt on each lead of the individual capacitors.  If you were
to read voltage between each of the five caps you would find 2KV.  In
the case you describe, the max voltage that you could apply would be
2KV.  If you were to ally 10KV to your caps, they would "Feel" 5KV each.

Randy
Savannah, GA

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Subject: Capacitor - series?

Original poster: Kreso Bukvic <kreso.bukvic-at-kc.htnet.hr>

Can we series caps that are diffrent in working voltage and capitance?
Example if we have a 1 nf 10 kV cap and a 10 nF 1 kV cap? If i series
them
il get 11 kV capacitor? What will happen with capitance, will this work?