Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #01624
To: "'Weston Gardiner'" westong@direct.ca,
From: "van Zoelen, Bram SSI-TSEA-352" Bram.A.A.vanZoelen@is.shell.com
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 11:19:04 +0100
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: caps
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> From: Weston Gardiner[SMTP:westong@direct.ca]
> Reply To: Weston Gardiner
> Sent: Thursday, March 18, 1999 10:17 PM
> To: beam@corp.sgi.com
> Subject: caps
>
> hi list, i have a few questions about capacitors
>
> 1. lets say i have two 2.5V, 1F caps hooked up in series, this means they
> can hold a 5V charge with a 1F capacity right?
>
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Basically yes. I've done this in the time that i was making transmitter with
radio bulbs.
Thay needed about 500V and what i did was putting two 330V caps in serie and
parallel over them a resistor to unload them when the power goes off.
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> 2. if i hook them up in parallel does this mean they can hold a 2.5V
> charge
> with a 2F capacity?
>
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Yes
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> 3. if i have a motor that requires 100mA and i hook it up to a large cap
> how
> much current will it allow the motor to take? is there a general rule that
> determines this?
>
>
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100mA
I don't know about a general rule
Bram
Robotic pages.
http://www.xs4all.nl/~vsim
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