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Bleeders for a cap bank



Original poster: "Jason Petrou by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <jasonp-at-btinternet-dot-com>

Hi all

I have a pretty standard MMC setup with 10meg bleeders across each cap -
what kind of time do the resistros take to bleed the caps? This is my
logic...

1 farad=96000 coulombs
0.068uF = 0.000068F
0.000068*96000 = 6.528C

at 714.3V per cap, and I=V/R, 714.3/10,000,000 = 0.00007143A thru each
resistor.

so, since Q=IT and therefore T=Q/I then T=6.528/0.00007143 = 80 thousand
seconds.

which is obviously wrong.... so how long do the resistors take to bleed the
caps?

Thanks,
Jason

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