Re: bleeder resistors for my new mmc

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Original poster: "Tom Stathes by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <newphreak_16-at-yahoo-dot-com>

I forgot to say one important thing.  The mmc while
rated for 20kvdc will have 10kvac going through it.
Dont know if it makes a difference or not
--Tom


--- Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com> wrote:
> 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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