Hi Dave,
If you can take time out of insulting Jon for a moment, I have a
question.
> What I am saying here is, that if the capacitor bank in a 5KW, 4000 VDC
> power supply, with 16 or 32 uF of capacitance discharges through an arc
> (however it is initiated) into a bandswitch or other component, the
> discharge will take place so quickly that it will be totally unexpected
> (unanticipated) with a resultant bang and explosion with accompanying
> light that all that will be left are crispy critters . Obviously this is
> the result of currents and voltages of such magnitude and such short
> duration as to vaporize metal.
Please explain how the energy moves freely from the filter
capacitors to the bandswitch, or to any other point in the circuit,
without a component failure that occurs BEFORE the big bang.
Can you do that, or is this just blind faith? If it is blind faith, I can
accept that as an answer.
73, Tom W8JI
w8ji@contesting.com
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