Re: bleeder resistors

Peter,

Why? Zero volts on a capacitor is not a reasonable goal. Take an
aluminum electrolytic capacitor, charge it up from a power supply.
Disconnect it and short it out with a piece of wire. Remove the short
and measure the voltage. Surprise! you will read a volt or more on
the cap. Short it again and you will get another spark. It's a little
something called dielectric absorption.

Generally a capacitor is considered discharged when there is 5% or
less of the original voltage left on it.

Mariss

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@y..., "cadcamcenter" <cadcamcenter@y...> wrote:
but am I asking/expecting too
> much for the voltage to fall off to ZERO after a reasonable >
> Peter