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RE: Dan's DRSSTC II 1st light tips?
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- Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 10:33:07 -0600
 
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Original poster: "Mccauley, Daniel H" <daniel.h.mccauley@xxxxxxxx>
Just saw this.
Anyways, the 10k resistor isn't going to discharge fast enough to be of
real use.
Its better to use a relay (or similar) and a smaller resistance resistor
to
really discharge as fast as possible.
Dan
 >  > I do have Dan's nice safety feature installed. A 10k
 >  > across the 3900uF @
 >  > 460 V storage cap. Would not want to get bit by that
 >  > thing charged up to
 >  > 300 volts!