Re: Capacitor size? Me again

Yes, there is one more thing you have to do:

1) Place resistors across each paralleled pair of caps. Make both
resistors the same size. This is to insure the series connection has
1/2 the supply voltage on it.

Mariss

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, "rllalonde2000"
<alalonde@s...> wrote:

>
> --- 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.