first i want to thank everyone who answered my other posts!
i'm building a EDM(electrical discharge machine) it basically charges a capacitor and then discharges it through a shaped electrode to machine that shape into a metal part.
i've got most of it worked out now. but what i need to know is, there are several different discharge caps that i will use and they will be switced in or out of the circuit. is it better to put the switch on the positive side of the capacitors or the negative side ?
does switcing the negative side off in effect take that cap out of the circuit?
that way the discharge current wouldn't have to pass through the switch, giving a shorter path to the electrode?
sorry for the long post,just trying to explain what i'm doing.
thank you, cary
i'm building a EDM(electrical discharge machine) it basically charges a capacitor and then discharges it through a shaped electrode to machine that shape into a metal part.
i've got most of it worked out now. but what i need to know is, there are several different discharge caps that i will use and they will be switced in or out of the circuit. is it better to put the switch on the positive side of the capacitors or the negative side ?
does switcing the negative side off in effect take that cap out of the circuit?
that way the discharge current wouldn't have to pass through the switch, giving a shorter path to the electrode?
sorry for the long post,just trying to explain what i'm doing.
thank you, cary