A resistor is considerably less reliable than a piece of heavy gauge
wire or braid connected directly to ground. You use the shorting
stick as a safeguard after everything is supposedly made safe. If
it's not really safe, then you live to tell the story about the big
bang and the blinding flash you saw when you hit the HV with the
stick. Much better than having others tell the tale of you going out
in a big bang and a blinding flash.
Alan
WA2DZL
On Jun 2, 2006, at 3:04 PM, Jim Wilhite wrote:
True, but should something be wrong with the meter following a
disaster, it might not show a charge. What an arc would be drawn
if 3 KV remained somewhere and you gave it a direct short.
I have always seen a high value resistor in these things.
73 Jim
W5JO
If you do things right,
Power Down,
Watch the HV meters fall down,
Then - Apply the shorting stick,
There won't be an arc.
WA5BXO, John
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