Easy question....
What is the overall tolerance of capacitors in serial and parralel ?
for instance, if I have two 10% caps in serial what is the total tolerance? is it still 10% or 20% or 5% or what..??? Is there a formula for this kind of stuff? Thanks
i think you mean series. in any case, if both are 10% then the total string should be 10%. you can look at it this way. lets assume 2 100 Ohms are 10% and they are at their upper limits, which would be 110 ohm each. put them in series, you would have 220 Ohms instead of 200 Ohms. now what is 10% of 200 Ohms?
220 8) so i guess the tolerance is still 10%
sorry, i didn't see that you were referring to CAPs. the answer is still the same.
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