Electronic – Calculating current through multiple capacitors in parallel

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I have a capacitor bank with 4 units in parallel and I'm trying to figure out the worst case scenario of current sharing at turn initial turn on. If 3 of the capacitors have the maximum ESR and one is say half the maximum ESR, how do I calculate the maximum current of the low ESR unit?

Best Answer

For any voltage step, the capacitance doesn't matter and the instantaneous impedance is just the resistance, or ESR.

In any case, when you're applying a fixed voltage to multiple things in parallel, you calculate the current draw of each thing independently, then add them for the total current.