On 5 Mar 2007 22:26:46 -0800, "THERES RAJ, BLR"
wrote:

On Mar 6, 6:37 am, wrote:
Thanks for looking.

How does one discharge a capacitor when working on a PCB, so that one
does not get electrocuted? Are there any other components that
maintain a charge after turning off power source. Thank you. please
answer to .

the safe way to discharge capacitor are through resistor, use the
resistor in minimum 10 watts with resistor 10megaohms for AC capaitor
from 110v to 440v

for DC from 5 to 220v capacitor us 5 watts and 150kilo-ohms above 220v
DC use 10mega ohms resistor value,
use two long lead with insulation and one end ground to chase or PCB
ground, and other lead to discharge the capacitor.
take more care when discharging more than 110v capacitor which will
produced high sparking when discharging.

Just how much wattage do you think you are going to get out of a
capacitor?