gravity is affecting the dielectric and causing the caps to charge....
Terry B
At 02:12 PM 5/12/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Matthew Redmond wrote:
>> This is something that happens to every stationary capacitor I have run
>> across so far. People who work with really large caps (some Ham's) are
>> usually told to strap them down when not in use because the voltages they
>> produce can be rather bad.
>
>Has a rate of charge collection ever been established? Periodically this
topic
>resurfaces and gets bounced around, but I don't recall if anyone has ever
>quantified the effect.
>
>No big deal, just curious...... 8^)
>
>
>John E. Steck
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