[AMPS] Power Handling of Resistors

[Tom Rauch]

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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