[Prev][Next][Index][Thread]
Re: TC Secondary Electrostatic Charge
-
To: tesla-at-grendel.objinc-dot-com
-
Subject: Re: TC Secondary Electrostatic Charge
-
From: jim.fosse-at-bdt-dot-com (Jim Fosse)
-
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 04:02:05 GMT
-
>Received: from bdt.bdt-dot-com (root-at-bdt-dot-com [140.174.173.10]) by uucp-1.csn-dot-net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id VAA12219 for <tesla-at-grendel.objinc-dot-com>; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 21:04:41 -0700
tesla-at-grendel.objinc-dot-com On Thu, 14 Mar 1996 20:01:03 +0700, you
wrote:
>I think you are experiencing dielectric memory. The general rule I
>apply to capacitors is : _never_ assume the cap is fully discharged
>just because you have discharged it. A safe capacitor is one with
>a short applied to its terminals. I have been bitten more than once
>like this. What seems to happen is that the stressed dielectric slowly
>unstresses over a period of time.
>
>Malcolm
>
>
It's probably related to the Electric effect (sp). Take a suitable
polar molecule, melt it, apply an electric field, allow the compound
to solidify with the electric field across it. The Electric(sp) is the
electrostatic equivalent of a permanant magnet.
jim