In a message dated 97-01-19 00:50:24 EST, you write: > I got it out this > summer and discharged it twice. Sounds like a stick of dynamite going off. > It > had been several years sence I discharge it before. Its best to store the cap with a shorting wire (from one terminal to the other) which will continue to bleed off any stored charge. This makes handeling the cap after extended sotrage time perfectly safe. -DavidF-