Re: Capacitor Safety Discharge Method (fwd)

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Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 15:27:37 -0700
From: Jim Lux <jimlux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Capacitor Safety Discharge Method (fwd)

At 05:51 AM 8/7/2007, you wrote:

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>Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 21:45:35 -0700
>From: Ray von Postel <vonpostel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Re: Capacitor Safety Discharge Method (fwd)
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>Guys:
>
>You are shorting out capacitors to keep from frying yourselves. What is
>the safety logic of putting some resistors in the circuit?


Small resistors limit the current when discharging, while still 
getting the voltage low enough, quick enough, to be safe.  There's a 
world of difference between dumping hundreds of joules in 1 
millisecond vs dumping it in 1 second.