Rebel Editor July 6, 2018 36 Comments



Discharging a capacitor means taking safety precautions and dissipating the energy from a capacitor into heat with a 12-volt automotive bulb. Safely dissipate …

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  2. R. Walton

    Capacitors discharge much more quickly, sometimes in fractions of a second, as they have extremely low internal resistance. Batteries can hold significantly more charge and release it much more slowly. They're also physically completely different: Caps use conductive plates separated by a dielectric. Applying voltage across the conductive foil creates an electric field across the dielectric, causing + and – charges on the plates. Batteries use mixtures of chemicals to create an electric charge.

  3. awesomefacepalm

    You're right!
    But I think this is the best explanation you can give to someone that doesn't have any kind of knowledge in these areas.

  4. iwont giveawaymyname

    By implying that a capacitor is essentially a battery you also imply that they behave the same. Nothing is farther from the truth, a battery is a Voltage source where as a capacitor is seen as a device to store charge, and can also be used implicitly as resistance in an AC circuit. The best information you could give someone is the actual application of a capacitor, which I just explained to you.

  5. Ayama Prantenna

    GD screwdriver wackos.  Thank you, sir.

  7. Ta Ma

    i prefer to use it on my cat… it's just hilarious…

  10. Felix R

    1:03 isnt there a ~10M Ohm Resistor inside your Multimeter?

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