Capacitors are nothing to screw around with. When in the Navy and
learning my trade( sonar - had lots of BIG capacitors) , I managed to
get a heavy screwdriver across capacitor terminals to ground and melted
the screwdriver shaft in a heartbeat. . Taught me a lesson. If I had a
hand on that shaft I would have been fried. Even small capacitors can
cause you serious grief if not kill you.

Careful. Read, read, read.

John Rdogers
88 GL Driver

Doug in Calif wrote:

>Anybody know how to safely discharge a capacitor?
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>Playing with another small ac unit and they have a capacitor  (110v) about the size of a tennis ball.
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>I would like to be able to continue doing my vanagon tinkering without losing my eyebrows.
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>I believe there are 3 spades on it and its my understanding you can connect a standard light bulb say 60 watt to it and it will
>discharge and then its safe?  no?
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>If you dont hear from me again, that was incorrect. (grin)
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>Doug
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