• cm0002@lemmy.worldOP
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      Yea, you put capacitors in series parallel when you need to pool the capacitance capacity, put them in parallel series when you need to boost the voltage (at the sacrifice of capacity)

      Edit, backwards

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        It’s the other way around. Parallel capacitors boost capacitance to the sum of the individuals. It’s like increasing the plates’ area. Serial connected capacitors do the reverse: decreased capacitance with greater breakdown voltage, like the dielectric’s thickness is increased.

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        Electronics is super fascinating to me, sadly it was that one particular class that I wasn’t sufficiently good at. so thanks for the explanation!

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      10000uF is huge, you would need to put them in parallel to add the capacitances, in series your new capacitance becomes C/n, with n the number of capacitor(if equal value each), with the benefit of increasing the voltage rating

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          Yea, but I can’t use them because they only support HDMI 1.2 and everything i’d want to run through them needs at least 1.4 because 4K

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            hah! well i was gonna make a joke about that being a new baby AVR (as opposed to ancient)

            but i digress.

            Optical ports can take 5.1 surround format!

            Otherwise yeah, you’ll need to split the audio and video