Electros in Series II

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Spiralled resistors ( carbon, cermet or metal film ) have high failure rates due to internal tracking when exposed to continuous high DC voltages. Finding any that can stand 700VDC is a hastle and they are not cheap.

One per cap is the norm, but using more would be better.

FYI:

I have come across series strings of HV film caps with 8.2Mohm balancing resistors that were large HV specials.

.... Phil

That can result in exceeding the voltage rating on the cap with the lowest leakage.

On Tue, 22 Oct 2019, you stated:

------------------------------------------------------------------------ As the leakage time constants lick in, the voltage redistributes into the minimum-current situation. It might take hours to mostly settle down, or maybe days.

Of course they don't equalize to equal voltage. They do magically find the voltage distribution that minimizes the leakage current.

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Fans.

I suspect you probably never need to put huge, expensive electrolytics in series. You could use high voltage supplies, such as a CFL transformer or a CW multiplier. These are high frequency, so they do not need large electrolytics. A simple high voltge ceramic would suffice. Even in fast pulse applications, you could parallel ceramics to get the needed energy storage.

So you are just trolling, the same as you did claiming crystal oscillators could take hours or days to start. Besides filling up your disk and memory, you do not make crystal oscillators. You stopped doing that in favor of buying them.

So I won't waste any more time on these threads.

It is the opinion of the peanut gallery that it would be nice if you guys could have some kind of capacitor-war to settle this once and for all...mano....a mano. For the good of the industry. Preferably by exploding some huge expensive electrolytics if that's possible.

You could sell tickets and cut some cool promos like:

"Eeee I'm John Larkin, I live in San Francisco. I buy capacitors! I eat cheese for dinner. eeeeeeh."

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A demented chimp called "bitrex" .

There is no debate needing to be settled here.

Wilson is an idiot, arguing from a position of no real word knowledge using only quarter baked theory he invented.

Everything he says is wrong.

Must be another retarded PIC programmer.

I see large electros ( eg 2200uF, 250V ) in series or series parallel all the time using only bleeders for safety.

.... Phil

Didn't somebody here invent a similar theoretical dilemma about putting zeners in series? Something about some not drawing enough current and messing up the others?

A lot of people don't understand electricity.

Lol, you're predictable, but you're unpredictably-predictable.

Does "The Thunder from Down Under" work OK for you as a tag-line?

Not exactly comparable but the first gen Honda Insight's regeneration pack was ~300 "D" cell

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Which they are mostly incapable of.

It a game where commonly heard phrases and terms are linked to others in differing contexts until any nonsense they like is "proved".

Favourite too of a great many people pushing causes in lieu of having an actual case.

.... Phil