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How does this work in practice... do compliant capacitors have to be designed to 'leak' stored charge across an internal resistor or something like that?

[edit] Ah I see this is called a bleed resistor, never mind



They usually just have a normal resistor in parallel with the capacitor. In my experience it's also kind of nice to have minimal load at the output, which makes it a bit easier for the voltage controller.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleeder_resistor




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