In a message dated 6/5/2006 0:25:48 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> it can ruin the capacitors with excessive > instantaneous current surges. Better to first discharge through a > resistance to limit the discharging current, then apply the "coup de grace" > by shorting directly. > How do you intend to handle the resistor while doing the discharging? You are still going to need a shorting stick. If the initial charge opens the resistor, tyou are still going to have a huge discharge when tou roun the cap directly. It is much better to take the slight chance of discharging the cap the direct way than messing around with some Rube Goldberg resistor arrangement. If the Great Electron Gods had intended for capacitors to be discharged through a resistor (other than a bleeder) before working on a circuit, them he would have made discharge sticks with built in resistors. I have never seen one, have you? Transmitting caps are not that hard to find, not that expensive. You can find them at nearly every hamfest. At the Manassas, VA hamfest yesterday, there were 2 large piles of them at one vendor in the flea market and he would almost pay you to take them home. 73, John, W4AWM
