chuck wrote:
It is not certain that there will be a "discharge" (i.e., a change from
a charged state to a neutral one) at all. Make sense? ;-)

I may be using the wrong word. By "discharge", I
didn't mean to imply that it would go to a neutral
state, just that a concentrated charge deposited
at a point on a conductor will be redistributed
over the entire conductor.
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73, Cecil http://www.w5dxp.com