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Hahaa ! HA! is working…

24.6Vdc / 24.9Vdc on both sides.
Nice dim led is gentely gloweling [emoji16]
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Hahaa ! HA! is working…

24.6Vdc / 24.9Vdc on both sides.
Nice dim led is gentely gloweling [emoji16]
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Today was funny.
I was fumbling with the leds, and a tiny piece fell down near the rectifiers. Tried to catch it with a pinch and ZZZAP, a humongous spark flashed up, scared me into oscillation.
You know, after what, 36 hours unconnected theses beasts are still loaded? Gosh.
 
Ok, lesson learned.

1: good morning!

2: Big resistor good enough for a safe discharge? Or straight to a light-bulb?
(Since the psu hasn’t been connected to anything yet, I consider the caps will stay loaded for a very long time/until something drained them?)

Discharging will happen by connecting lightbulb/big-resistor to the psu‘s outputs? (+/gnd and -/gnd)?

Plus: to accomplish the level I guess I need to heatshrink the hard-wired rectifier-connectors (after they have been properly discharged)

(3🙂 Sorry to bother you with first-grader stuff and blue cars [emoji51]
 
since I have dummy load handy(8R, plethora watts) - I'm always using that to bleed caps, while working on amps

though - 8R I'm using usually when voltage is already sagged with circuit itself, so no sparks and big currents

when I'm dealing with voltages high enough to involve 1A and more , I'm always starting with 1K/3W or something as that, finishing with 8R

just matter of practice and routine

how to discharge - just observe it as connecting resistor across cap directly; where in circuit you are going to do that, matter of convenience