{"id":208,"date":"2016-03-24T17:44:56","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T17:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darylwhite.net\/?p=208"},"modified":"2016-03-24T17:44:56","modified_gmt":"2016-03-24T17:44:56","slug":"capacitor-discharge-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darylwhite.net\/index.php\/2016\/03\/24\/capacitor-discharge-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"Capacitor Discharge Tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I made this tool so I could discharge the large capacitors I&#8217;m using in a controlled maner as just shorting them with a screwdriver leads to big sparks and contact errosion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/darylwhite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_20160124_180023-Medium.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-209\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-209\" src=\"https:\/\/darylwhite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_20160124_180023-Medium-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20160124_180023 (Medium)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/darylwhite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_20160124_180023-Medium-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/darylwhite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_20160124_180023-Medium-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/darylwhite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_20160124_180023-Medium.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s simply a 10 Ohm 50 Watt power resistor attached to a nice thick cable and some crocodile clips all with plenty of heatshrink. I settled on 10 Ohms after doing a few rough calculations given the level of voltage I&#8217;d be using it at.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I made this tool so I could discharge the large capacitors I&#8217;m using in a controlled maner as just shorting them with a screwdriver leads to big sparks and contact errosion. It&#8217;s simply a 10 Ohm 50 Watt power resistor attached to a nice thick cable and some crocodile clips all with plenty of heatshrink. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coil-gun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darylwhite.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darylwhite.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darylwhite.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darylwhite.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darylwhite.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/darylwhite.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210,"href":"https:\/\/darylwhite.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions\/210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darylwhite.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darylwhite.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darylwhite.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}