9 Jun
2009
9 Jun
'09
8:38 p.m.
On Tue, 9 Jun 2009, Dave McGuire wrote:
On Jun 9, 2009, at 1:21 PM, Shoppa, Tim wrote:
Isn't that why the Right Thing to do with big capacitors is to store them
shorted?
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David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu
A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text.
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Soakage is always fun. Take a big electrolytic,
short it out and remove the
short, let it sit for a while on the bench, then put a hi-impedance
voltmeter on it. It will not read 0V.
I've run into this! Except one doesn't need a high-impedance meter for
it...I've seen them somehow recover enough charge to produce a spark when
re-shorted. It's very odd.