Capacitor Drain Line
From the plot of capacitor discharge vs time constant [τ] we can see that the capacitor terminal voltage will decay to 37% of its initial value in one time constant and to 5% in three time constant (3τ) etc. Figure also shows that atleast five time constant (5τ) is needed to bring the voltage close to zero.Use of discharge resistor is not a substitute for the recommended practice of ...