Re: Toploads that bite

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• Subject: Re: Toploads that bite
• From: Parpp807-at-aol-dot-com (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)
• Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 19:49:12 -0700
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Nick and Herwig,

I got tired of bending off the leads from 10M resistors to use as a safety 
bleeder so I found a piece of 1/4-inch lexan around 4 x 1.5 inch. I glued 2 
small pieces of brass to one side
of the plastic with a spacing wide enuff to clear the body of a 1 Watt, 10M 
resistor. I drilled two holes of a size and spacing to slip over the 
terminals of my MMC so the cap terminals can make contact with the brass and 
then soldered two parallel 10M resistors across the brass
pieces. Viola: a safety bleed that I can simply slip over the MMC terms when 
I am playing with the wiring. Try to remember that it is there.  :-))

I have a related question to enter in the stupid question contest. Since the 
primary capacitor is connected across the secondary of the HV transformer, 
doesn't it always
have a discharge path thru the transformer secondary? How can the capacitor 
possibly hold a latent charge?

Happy day,
Ralph Zekelman

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