Talk:Electronics/Simplifying Capacitor/Inductor Networks

From the Wiki page: Capacitors in series are the same as increasing the distance between two capacitor plates. As well, it should be noted that if you place two capacitors of a 100V max rating together in series, you can charge them both (in series) to 200V without destruction.

reference: http://www.oz.net/~coilgun/theory/capacitors2.htm (I could probably get a better reference, however i think this one will prove my point)

suggests this is only true if the two capacitors are identical. And warns against doing this in practice.

Peterblockley

>>That is true. I was trying to keep the article concise, but i'll add some reality into it now.