Why do they say capacitors block DC voltage?

lee26loo

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Capacitor is made of two separated metal plates and insulated by air or plastic or paper or oil...etc.
Therefore ,DC under the break down voltage limit of insulator of a capacitor ,shall not be able to get through .
 

kasab

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It is not my specialty, but as I see it for your second part of the question a capacitor is connected in parallel to the load in a rectified signal in a power supply. Series connection makes open circuit.
 

Indiana

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It all depends on the capacitor and how it's hooked up in the circuit. There are bipolar and polarized caps and you can hook them up in a variety of ways in different circuits. I'm way too tired to remember which does what right now, but I know you can easily look it up on howitoworks.com.
 
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