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capacitor discharge

5 videos. Ranked by independent recommendations, not by views.

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   1 4,000-Joule Exploding Wire Machine

   Hyperspace Pirate 4 people · 6 months · since Jan 2025

   Cited as a vivid example of huge current pulses making conductors blow apart, and of the heavy thyristor needed to switch that much power.

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   2 I've Made a Powerful COILGUN | Separate Stages PCB

   Electronoobs 4 people · 4 months · since Mar 2023

   Recommended for its explanation of a schematic that dumps stored capacitor energy through coils, with ideas that carry over to similar projects.

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   3 EEVblog 1655 - How to Discharge Capacitors SAFELY using a Multimeter!

   EEVblog 4 people · 4 months · since Dec 2024

   Regularly cited EEVblog explanation of draining capacitors safely with a multimeter on its resistance range, relying on the meter's internal protection parts.

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   4 My 1.5KJ Home-Built Gauss Rifle!

   Benjamin Marshall 3 people · 3 months · since Feb 2023

   Suggested to people designing high-current pulsed coil circuits, with the description's resources and scope captures of IGBT switching behaviour seen as useful.

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   5 How to Safely Discharge a Capacitor | Another Teaching Moment | DigiKey

   DigiKey 3 people · 3 months · since Jun 2019

   A Digi-Key video pointed to for learning how to discharge capacitors safely, especially for people opening mains equipment or building a simple resistor-based discharge tool.