RE: Bleeder Resistors

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Original poster: "Mccauley, Daniel H" <daniel.h.mccauley@xxxxxxxx>



Just keep in mind, if you have a system with a network of capacitors,
you need to short out terminals
of ALL capacitors in the system.  You can easily short out the terminals
of one cap, only to have the
energy transfer, or remain in other capacitors in the system.  Similar
to an MMC where if you short out the
end terminals, you cannot guarantee that individual caps of the MMC are
discharged.

>2) A dead short will discharge any cap to zero in a matter of
>microseconds.  All you need to do is ensure that you've made proper
>contact with both terminals, and you're done.  I figure that I have two

>discharge mechanisms in place - the normal path through the NST
>secondary and primary coil, and my bleeder resistor.  The chances of
>either one failing is small but not zero.  But the chances of BOTH
>mechanisms failing are so remote that I don't use a hot stick.