How do you discharge a super capacitor without the use of any discharging circuit? What load can I use for it to be discharged to near single digit volts in minutes? Can I use an LED light here and if so, how long would it take to discharge it if I'm using a 3-5W LED light bulb? Thank you!

 

What voltage is the cap charged to?
What is the capacitance?
What is the rated Vf of the LED?

 

How do you discharge a super capacitor without the use of any discharging circuit?

Under what circumstances to do you want it to discharge? If it lights the LED, there will be a circuit.

 

I prefer to use super resistors to discharge my super capacitors.

 

What voltage is the cap charged to?
What is the capacitance?
What is the rated Vf of the LED?

Sorry i forgot to put in the details
48V, 165F supercapacitor.
Any other way to discharge it that you would recommend (besides having a discharge circuit)? Thank you!

 

No circuit, no discharge. Except for a slight leakage.

How quickly do you want this to happen?

 

Anything conductive connected across the cap would constitute a discharge circuit.

 

i was going to suggest a decent flat blade screwdriver

but i won't

 

A 220V 3kW fire would make a relatively safe load to discharge the cap.
Here's the discharge curve over a 100 minute period

 

The capacitor when fully charged stores roughly 190kJ, so if you were to draw 5W from it it would take 38000 seconds to discharge, that is 10.5 hours.