Buying EL components; Electrolytic Capacitor

[ftec]

I have some difficulties to find reasonably priced High Voltage Electrolytic Capacitors for appr. 22,000uF / 160V (or higher) locally. Futurlec sells 1000uF/250V for $3.40 and I could take 22 of those and make a matrix but it takes so much room. Anyone could recommend reliable (=well known) shops selling large el capacitors and other EL components internationally.

Thanks,
Risto

[keebler303]

I always lurk on ebay until a good buy comes up on a bank of 'em.

Good Luck
Matt

[cjmerlincnc]

If you cannot find any high voltage ones you can connect capacitors in series, so if you found some 22,000uf @ 100v you can connect 2 in series which will handle 200v but roughly halve the capacitance.

Series capacitance is worked out as 1 divided by c1 plus 1 divided by c2 and so on.

So you would need 4 in total, 2 each in series and then parallel the 2 sets to get your 22,000uf @ 200v

If you see what I mean..