Re: Capacitor size? Me again

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, Stephen Wille Padnos
<spadnos@s...> wrote:

> rllalonde2000 wrote:
>
> >Wow, That was alot of info to absorb! Thanks to all!
> >
> >I have some 15000 uf, 63volt caps. If I use two of them, that's

126

> >volts. Well above the 50% margin. Shouldn't this be enough?
> >
> >
> Yes, but you have to divide the capacitance by the number of caps

you

> put in series, so these will be effectively 7500 uF.
> You have to use four caps to get the same effective capacitance

with

> double the voltage (two parallel strings of two each).
>
> - Steve

Ah, I remember reading that now. I'd forgotten. I have the caps. Is
there a disadvantage to using four?

Rick L.