Re: was: VTTC first sound Now: Safe Operating Procedures

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Original poster: "Herwig Roscher by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <herwig.roscher-at-gmx.de>


David Sharpe wrote:

> Herwig, you have presented a very valuable piece of advice for all 
of us HV experimenters to heed...

David,

Thank you for your really kind words. The procedure I described 
proofed to be very useful especially when operating systems 
containing energy storing components like HV-capacitors. These 
parts should be discharged and shorted before any part of the 
system is touched. It happend to me that I forgot to remove the 
short circuiting lead before hitting the mains switch: BIG BANG 
and a fried 28 kV-6-pulse-rectifier. So I leant it the "hard" way.

Regards,

Herwig