Re: Bleeder resisters

["Steve" <Steve-at-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-xxxxxxxxxx>)]

Sounds like I'm an agent for Maplins (I'm not) but they stock suitable
resistors for bleeders (p223 of current catalogue, working voltage 2.5kV AC
-at-30p ea.) Cat No for 10M is V10M  I've used these on 5 MMCs without
problems.
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Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 2:10 PM
Subject: RE: Bleeder resisters


> Original poster: "Neil Chambers" <Neil_Chambers-at-paragon-it-dot-com>
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> Original poster: "Mike Harrison" <mike-at-whitewing.co.uk>
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> >Of course almost any device will work in excess of its ratings, but
> >you never know how much headroom you may or may not have.  Unless you
> >know for sure that the resistors you are using have the required
> >rating there will be some risk of failure. As bleeder resistors are to
> >some extent safety-related, and the correct ones are not expensive in
> >absolute terms, I see no good reason not to use ones with the correct
> >rating.
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> That makes sense, but I have not been able to find resisters rated at
>1000V
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