Re: How do you discharge a capacitor safely.



In article <1173162406.359083.240220@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"THERES RAJ, BLR" <forestking_lion@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
the safe way to discharge capacitor are through resistor, use the
resistor in minimum 10 watts with resistor 10megaohms for AC capaitor
from 110v to 440v

According to my calcs, the maximum power needed for a 10M0 resistor is
0.01936 watts.

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