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From: jans@mako.UUCP (Jan Steinman)
Newsgroups: net.analog
Subject: Re: Big Capacitors
Message-ID: <440@mako.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 10-Dec-84 13:22:42 EST
Article-I.D.: mako.440
Posted: Mon Dec 10 13:22:42 1984
Date-Received: Wed, 12-Dec-84 05:16:57 EST
References: <1812@sun.uucp> <1215@hou4b.UUCP> <6171@brl-tgr.ARPA> <10102@watmath.UUCP> <6429@brl-tgr.ARPA>
Reply-To: jans@mako.UUCP (Jan Steinman)
Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR
Lines: 14
Summary: 

In article <6429@brl-tgr.ARPA> ron@brl-tgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie ) writes:
>Ok, lets see, I take two 1.5 volt batteries and place them in series
>I get 3 volts.  I take two capacitors in series, doesn't quite do the
>same thing.

You don't!  O'm'gosh!  Instant death to the television, X-ray, and (deep
breath) computer terminal industries, all of which rely on this very property
to get high DC voltages from an AC source!

Go to a college EE text and look up "voltage doubler" in the index, then
report back to the net that "1.5 + 1.5 does indeed equal 3".
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