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Re: Another Cap/Resistor Question

Hi Adam,

	Across each cap.  I work with high voltage supplies and since they are
made in quantity, we will see a percentage of failures without individual
drain resistors on the caps.  This is due to them unevenly charging over
time even though they are in an AC application.  Many have not used these
resistors without any problems but... the first question I'll ask when
something does blow is if they used resistors or not...  Admittedly, the
power supplies are in use 24 hours a day so perhaps I am just overly
cautious.  Time will tell if this is a problem in our short duration TC use.

	Terry



At 10:51 PM 4/26/99 -0400, you wrote:
>I plan on using series/parallel strings of capacitors instead of one
>single unit (more stable so I've heard).  When placing resistors across
>these for safety purposes, should I design the resistor strings to go
>across each individual capacitor, or to go across the whole unit, as if
>it was one cap?
>
>Thanks, and sorry for not asking this sooner
>Adam