on 3/8/00 07:37, Tom Rauch at w8ji@contesting.com wrote:
>> 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.
I would also like to know how DC voltage from a DC power supply can pass
through a DC blocking capacitor and destroy the bandswitch.
If you want to introduce fundamental RF voltages into the equation, that's
another story.
Jon
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