In a message dated 3/8/00 8:38:02 AM Eastern Standard Time,
w8ji@contesting.com writes:
> 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.
>
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Tom,
If you will read again my original post which you quoted above, please notice
that I did NOT say anything about a specific mechanism initiating the
destruction and emphatically said (however it is initiated). Please don't
bait and switch the discussion.
Using the SCIENTIFIC METHOD I learned in CollegePhysics, I OBSERVED the
metal fragments and powder residue of the bandswitch which resulted from the
BIG, LOUD, LIGHT EMITTING BANG.
After doing so, I concluded that the source of the energy which caused the
vaporization was EITHER my 5KW power supply OR a bolt of lightning from outer
space.
After employing the Scientific Method once again, I observed that my roof was
still intact, so I reasoned that the energy OBVIOUSLY MUST have come from MY
power supply (or maybe a photon event).
Where would you say the energy came from Tom?
Cheers,
Dave,WT8R
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