Discharger
A discharger in electronics is a device or circuit that releases stored energy or electric charge from a battery, capacitor or other source.
Discharger types include:
- metal probe with insulated handle & ground wire, and sometimes resistor (for capacitors)
- resistor (for batteries)
- parasitic discharge (for batteries arranged in parallel)
- more complex electronic circuits (for batteries)
See also Bleeder resistor
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Wednesday, May 06, 2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.