Current carrying capacity of capacitors in parallel

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  Harshad Italiya

  Prakash Parmar

  if we connect to or more capacitors in parallel then what changes in its current carrying capacity?? like increase or decrease?? and why??

  Capacitor stores voltage only. And in case of capacitor when you connect in parallel its value increases.
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  Prakash Parmar

  godfather

  Capacitor stores voltage only. And in case of capacitor when you connect in parallel its value increases.

  what about the current carrying capacity???
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  Sindhu Chowdary

  Prakash Parmar

  what about the current carrying capacity???

  i think capacitors are storage devices......
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  pavani abburi

  i=c dv/dt ....in parallel combination capacitance increases so c increases hence the current increases.
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  Ramani Aswath

  Capacitors store charge. Paralleling just arithmetically adds up total capacity.
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  Prakash Parmar

  thanx to all...
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  vikaskumar11233

  Very knowledgeable discussion.In parallel current increases in capacitors.
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  Prakash Parmar

  vikaskumar11233

  Very knowledgeable discussion.In parallel current increases in capacitors.

  current increase or current carrying capacity increase????
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  Ramani Aswath

  Neither. A capacitor stores electric charge. Coulombs. One coulomb = one ampere second. That is the amount of electric charge transferred when one ampere passes for one second.
  Similar to an overhead water tank. The water is just held in the tank. When a pipe connected to the tank is opened water flows, which is analogous to current in a wire. If you have two water tanks of 100 litres capacity connected in parallel you get a total capacity of two hundred litres.
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  rohit_jun22

  capacity of the capacitor will not change. neither current carrying nor voltage storing. joining two capacitors in parallel simply passes less current through each capacitor than one capacitor across the same supply