From: lihan@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Bruce G. Bostwick) Subject: Re: how can 0.022 uF be different from two 0.047 in series?! Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX Lines: 13 Distribution: usa NNTP-Posting-Host: doc.cc.utexas.edu In article henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes: > >This may be a safety issue; the CSA is more paranoid in certain areas than >UL and such. Two caps in series means that you don't have a short if one >of them shorts. Not necessarily true; a short in one, if near the maximum series voltage drop, will overvoltage the other one and short it too, more -- lihan@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu / The only reason the world hasn't (really Bruce Bostwick) / dissolved into total chaos is that from the great state of TEXAS / Murphy's Law also applies to Murphy.