Pat says;
>Another brain storm/scare...If I put the HI Pot tester across that big 4
>uf 15kv, capacitor, could it charge the cap to dangerous levels?
YES! Back in my apprentice days at marconi's in the 1960's, I worked on
receiver protection against lightning. We used a 15kV ionisation detector
that could produce 100 microamps to charge 2 microfarads to 15kV, and let it
go througfh a spark gap into the rx front end.
Be careful.
73
Peter G3RZP
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