From: lihan@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Bruce G. Bostwick)
Subject: Re: how can 0.022 uF be different from two 0.047 in series?!
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In article <C5uC68.19K@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
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>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
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