Re: Safe handling of Capacitors (fwd)

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Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 13:16:50 -0600
From: ebyng <ebyng-at-netlimit-dot-com>
To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject: Re: Safe handling of Capacitors

I've got a 300 ohm 1000w ohmite resistor sitting around.  Would that work
according to your description???
Erik
>
>Hello Matt D, Ed and all on the List,
>Like you guys, I used to short out big capacitors in electronic
>equipment for my own safety and quite enjoyed the splat that
> was made, causing my  co-workers to  jump.
>
>I had just started working in a place that manufactured Uninteruptable
>Power Supplies (UPSs) and before poking around in the UPS, for
>my own safety I placed my screwdriver across the terminals of
>the some large electrolytic capacitors charged up to 300 volts.
>There was quite a splat and everyone in the workshop looked
>at me as though I was a jerk and held up their discharging resistors
>shaking their heads at me.The boss came running in to find out what
>made the noise.
>It seems that I had commited a terrible crime by shorting out the
>large expensive capacitors and had to spent the next couple of hours
>finding new  capacitors to replace the "possibly damaged" capacitors
>caused by me and my screw driver.
>
>All the technicians in that company had in their pockets a wire
>wound resistor (of a few hundred ohms and several watts) with
> a couple of long insulated wires and insulated crocodile clips, all
> nicely insulated with heatshink tubing.
>
>Since then, after that humilation,  I have always used the shorting
> resistor that was slapped on my bench by my boss to discharge
> big capacitors properly so as to not  risk damaging them,
> but mainly to avoid arguements... heh heh heh... :-))
>Regards,
>John Crighton
>
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