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Is there a single phase capacitor?

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All capacitors fundamentally have two sides or "connections" so that any single capacitor will have two terminals.

That is true whether capacitors are used in single phase (using one or more capacitors), or in three phase power (same number of discrete capacitors on each phase).

The packaging of capacitors is mostly as "singles" having just two connecting wires or terminals, but certain applications - such as three-phase motor speed controllers - often use "blocks" of three or more capacitors, packaged together into one "body" or "casing". Those "capacitor blocks" have four or more connecting wires or terminals.

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