Re: bleeder resistors for my new mmc

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Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>

Hi Tom,

The RC time constant would be 50 seconds if you put them across each cap.
However, if you put them in parrallel across the whole thing you could get
down to 12.5 seconds.  that would be about a 60 second discharge time (5 RC
time constants).  Still kind of high and the resistors would have to take
the full voltage across the whole cap, but if it is all you have...

Cheers,

	Terry

At 08:58 PM 1/2/2001 -0800, you wrote:
>Welli finaly have an mc, but i dont know what vale
>bleeders to use for it.  Each string is 2 50nf-at-10kvdc
>mica caps there are 2 of these strings in paralell. I
>have 4 1Gohm resistors yup thats 1000M i pulled out of
>an old "FET TEST" fet tester i want to know if one of
>these across each cap would be good or what would be a
>good value to upt across the whole mmc.
>Thanks
>--Tom 
>
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