Erstatningskapacitansen

English translation: equivalent capacitance

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Danish term or phrase:Erstatningskapacitansen
English translation:equivalent capacitance
Entered by: Torben Hansen

22:57 Jan 17, 2009
Danish to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Physics
Danish term or phrase: Erstatningskapacitansen
In talking about serial capacitors this line occurs:

Den reciprokke værdi af erstatningskapacitansen C for en seriekobling af kapacitorer er summen af de reciprokke værdier af kapacitanserne af de enkelte kapacitorer.

I'm not sure what would be the correct translation for "erstatningskapacitansen"?
Torben Hansen
United States
Local time: 05:23
equivalent capacitance
Explanation:
By analogy with German where a number of electronics terms starting with 'Ersatz-' are translated by 'equivalent-', e.g. Ersatzkapazität = equivalent capacitance, and Ersatzkreis = equivalent circuit.
My source is my German to English technical dictionaries.
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David Connor
Australia
Local time: 23:23
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Summary of answers provided
4 +1equivalent capacitance
David Connor
4 -1the replacement capacitance
Suzanne Blangsted (X)
3 -1Compensation capacitance
Hanne Rask Sonderborg


  

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equivalent capacitance


Explanation:
By analogy with German where a number of electronics terms starting with 'Ersatz-' are translated by 'equivalent-', e.g. Ersatzkapazität = equivalent capacitance, and Ersatzkreis = equivalent circuit.
My source is my German to English technical dictionaries.

David Connor
Australia
Local time: 23:23
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Sven Petersson: http://www.jayscape.net/files/skole/gym/fys/3. g/Kapacitor.p...
38 mins
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): -1
Compensation capacitance


Explanation:
Erstatningskapacitansen C for en parallelkobling af kapacitorer er summen af kapacitanserne af de enkelte kapacitorer i koblingen.
http://www2002159.thinkquest.dk/ElektricitetMagnet.php

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Compensation_capacita...
and http://books.google.com/books?id=nIcgB1hf90EC&pg=PA138&lpg=P...



Hanne Rask Sonderborg
Denmark
Local time: 13:23
Native speaker of: Native in DanishDanish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  Sven Petersson: Too wild a guess!
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): -1
the replacement capacitance


Explanation:
IATE and L&H ref. books, plus:
http://dkc1.digikey.com/us/en/tod/TDK/HighCapReplacement_NoA...

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/13970/abstract?CR...


Suzanne Blangsted (X)
Local time: 05:23
Native speaker of: Native in DanishDanish, Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  Sven Petersson: Pulling our legs AGAIN?
31 mins
  -> Sorry, I didn't know you were bowlegged.
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