Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 (Tek) 9/28/84 based on 9/17/84; site mako.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!packard!edsel!bentley!hoxna!houxm!ihnp4!zehntel!tektronix!orca!mako!jans 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". -- :::::: Jan Steinman Box 1000, MS 61-161 (w)503/685-2843 :::::: :::::: tektronix!tekecs!jans Wilsonville, OR 97070 (h)503/657-7703 ::::::