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Reply With QuoteBe EXTREMELY carefull when messing with that capacitor!! I am going to assume that the output of the ballast's transformer is in the 1000+ volt range. If you put a screw driver across the terminals, it will melt(no, not the handle, the metal). The charges in some of those capacitors are enough to kill several grown men. You'd be dead before you felt the shock.
I do not know of any safe way to discharge it. You might want to ask SPASSE.
In the mean time, LEAVE IT ALONE!
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- 07-01-2001 01:26 PM #1Governor
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Ballast capacitor
I have some 175w ballast I just wired up to test, these are for sale in that forum. My question is do I need to dis-charge the capacitors? For some reason I remember that capacitors hold a charge, and to handle them safefly I need to dis-charge them.
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2 + 2 != 4
Two is only loosely associated with two by a plus sign and therefore doesn't enter the equation at all since it is only there by mere complicity. We shouldn't count it and leave well enough alone.
- 07-03-2001 11:04 AM #3Governor
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I spoke with a EE friend and a electrician, both said there was no danger and would disapate in air. They said I could lay a screwdriver across the terminals and release the charge. I did that last night and got almost no spark.
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- 07-03-2001 11:23 AM #4Governor
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Good!
There are some capacitors that are dangerous. The ones found connect to a microwave's magnetron's transformer and some used in TV's. I would just rather be safe than sorry.
Glad it worked out.
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Two is only loosely associated with two by a plus sign and therefore doesn't enter the equation at all since it is only there by mere complicity. We shouldn't count it and leave well enough alone.
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