Re: use bleeder resistors on mmc!

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Original poster: "Dave Lewis by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <hvdave-at-earthlink-dot-net>

One of those cammera caps got me too once.  Put a pair of burn marks on
my thumb.  Lucky it only arced only through my thumb.

Watch out for those little cammeras!

Dave Lewis


Tesla list wrote:
<daniel.h.mccauley-at-lmco-dot-com>
> 
> >>>>>>>>>>Actually, the flash capacitor is probably more dangerous than the
> individual MMC cap, although a fully charge MMC array is as dangerous as a
> commercial flash capacitor stored.
> 
> Figure, my CANON high performance flash unit has a 800V, 200uF capacitor and
> when charged fully is charged to about 650VDC.
> Thats almost certainly a possible lethal blow getting hit by that.
> 
> Come to think of it, my worse shock i ever received was from a disposable
> flash camera when I was disassembling.
> 
> Watch those capacitors!!!!
> 
> Dan
>