Re: Hi Voltage Resistor availability Aust/NZ (fwd)

[Steven Roys <sroys@xxxxxxxx>]

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Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 19:25:46 +1200
From: tesla <tesla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: High Voltage list <hvlist@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Hi Voltage Resistor availability Aust/NZ (fwd)

Hi Team
Tnx for the assistance, RS is a source I had overlooked, I'll be onto that
pronto.
Re your comment below Dan:
Really useful to know that you found those resistors to work OK. I
appreciated the point re voltage stress during charging but from my analysis
at the momment of firing ofthe gap the reistor sees the full stage volts for
a few microsecond or so, it was this that had made me think that I would
need the high voltage range of reistors

Best
Ted L in NZ


>> Subject: RE: Hi Voltage Resistor availability Aust/NZ (fwd)


> You don't need such a resistor if you are using them between stages.  I
> use 1Meg, 600V, 3W carbon resistors with zero problems and I'm charging
> my stages up to 40kV each.
> Unless your charging current is super higher, you will never drop more
> than a few hundred volts between each stage.
>
> Dan