On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 01:31 AM, Richard Knoppow wrote:
>If the power supply has "equalizing" resistors across each cap they usually serve the purpose of preventing any charge from remaining any length of time. Modern electrolytic caps don't need them so they are often removed.
Absolute utter? nonsense.? ?The 100k eq resistor across each lytic is to equalize the V drop across each cap.? 2650 vdc / 800k = 3.3 ma of eq current..... = 8.77 watts total or? 1.09 watts per resistor.
Without the 100k across each cap, the vdrop across each cap is all over the map.
