DIY ALERT!!!!!
If you're going to do the following
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Originally Posted by ameuba10
Before your charge your capacitor, you must discharge the capacitor. To do this, just short out the positive and ground leads very carefully and hold it for a few seconds to be sure that all the stored voltage is released.
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USE A 5 ~ 10 W 4Ohm RESISTOR TO SHORT THE TERMINALS
Playing with a large capacitor is a lot like playing with a shotgun.. Even when you're 100% sure it's not loaded, you never point it at somebody!!!
Don't
ever short the terminals of a large capacitor directly.
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Those are my two cents to this conversation. Carry on...
(Oh, and my personal take is that large capacitors don't belong in a car... they belong in rail guns
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