On 9/7/2026 11:18 AM, john larkin wrote:Suppose we have a box with some big caps inside, for example 0.2>
farads that run at about 200 volts. When AC power is off, we want to
discharge them for several reasons.
Putting, say, a 1K resistor across them dissipates 40 watts and has a
200 second time constant. It will take many tau before the voltage
gets low enough for people to poke around inside.
The ideal discharger would be a constant-current or even better a
constant-power load, all the way down to zero volts. It would be dumb,
not switched by some decision circuit or anything fancy like that.
And of course we need several LEDs as warnings that the thing is hot.
John Larkin
Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center
Lunatic Fringe Electronics
Motor generator?
Ed
Maybe not available in surface mount. And the heat still needs to go
somewhere.
John Larkin
Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center
Lunatic Fringe Electronics
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