Re: capacitor plate area ratio

On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 03:33:57 GMT, Jamie Morken <jmorken@xxxxxxx>
wrote:

Hi,

I was thinking that two couple conductors (a capacitor) is similar
to two coupled inductors (a transformer), but the difference is that
a capacitor usually has a plate area ratio of 1:1.

So if a capacitor in an AC coupled configuration is constructed with a
plate area ratio of 2:1 for the "primary" to "secondary" conductors,
will this transform an input signals voltage in a 2:1 ratio on the
secondary conductor?

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