Mythbusters (was: OT - Need fuse and jumpers from APC battery

2 Feb 2006

...
   "A good
way to discharge a capacitor is to use a screwdriver across
 the terminals." ???  Isn't it?  (As long as you are not touching the metal
part of the
 screwdriver!) 
Perhaps.  If your only goal is to discharge the cap, and everything
else is secondary to that, it's fine.

But if you're interested in not damaging the cap, the screwdriver, your
vision for the next few minutes, etc, in the process...you might want
to use a bleeder resistor instead. :)

At least if the voltage*capacitance product is large enough to carry
significant amounts of energy.

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