capacitors in series and paralell

[gyulasun]

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>>I didn't notice the switches at first. ... Now that I've looked, the resistance should be about the only loss in the system.  I only looked at the first drawing; as straightforward as it seems to me, testing for such a small reduction might be difficult?
Would I be correct?
--Lee

Hi Lee,

Yes the losses would be the contact resistances of the switches and the equivalent series resistances of the supercapacitor and that of the battery.
The super capacitor should be a bipolar type to accept the reverse voltage too. 
Sorry I cannot get what you mean by: "testing for such a small reduction might be difficult" ?   what is the small reduction?

rgds,  Gyula

[the_big_m_in_ok]

gyulasun said:

The super capacitor should be a bipolar type to accept the reverse voltage too. 

>>Hey Gyula,

Right.  Attaching the terminals to the wrong polarity on a large capacitor might be a disaster!  Tesla thought the capacitor was the same as "electrical dynamite!"

"Sorry I cannot get what you mean by: "testing for such a small reduction might be difficult" ?   what is the small reduction?"

>>I meant in contact resistance.  It, and the wire/cable resistance, should be as low as practical.  It's usually too small to be worth measuring in most systems.

--Lee