Re: connecting caps together

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Original poster: "Dave Leddon by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <leddon-at-attbi-dot-com>

Yes, but the only way one cap in a series connection could take all the
voltage
would be if the other caps were shorted out (or have a significantly lower
resistance),
 in which case the resistor divider string would serve no purpose.

Dave

At 06:41 PM 2/15/02 -0700, you wrote:
>Original poster: "rheidlebaugh by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<rheidlebaugh-at-zialink-dot-com>
>
>Yes, there should be a resisror 5 to 33 meg across each capacitor to divide
>the voltage equaly preventing one capacitor fram taking all the voltage.
>
>> From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
>> Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 16:32:08 -0700
>> To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
>> Subject: connecting caps together
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>> Resent-Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 16:36:57 -0700
>> 
>> Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
>> <Beans45601-at-aol-dot-com>
>> 
>> is there annything special to hook up a string of caps?
>> Thanks
>> Adam
>> 
>> 
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