mark olson wrote:
If everything is interconnected (series combination of parallel groups), you save some bleeders, surely, and the total capacitance of each parallel group is more precise than the capacitance of a single capacitor, resulting is slightly better distribution of the voltage among the capacitors. There is the question about if this is good or bad when a capacitor develops a puncture, and the discharge trough it "heals" the defect. With several capacitors discharging trough the deffect, the discharge may result in more effective vaporization of the area around the puncture, or may destroy the capacitor. I would take a look at capacitors of higher values made by the same manufacturer, said to have this property of healing deffects too. If the parallel association doesn't exceed the largest capacitance, I think that it's safe to leave them interconnected inHello group,Are there any advantages or disadvantages to connecting caps as paralleled groups ofseries strings or seriesed groups of parallel.It occurred to me that value wise it makes no difference, but if the series strings in parallel are modified such that the terminations between each individual cap are connected to the corresponding terminations in the other strings the cluster has effectively become parallelgroups in series.It seems that these jumpers would even out the load, make the bank more robust and decreasethe number of bleeders required.
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