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Re: bleeder resistors for my new mmc



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

Hi Tom,

Not really, The discharge times all stay the same regardless of voltage.

Cheers,

	Terry

At 11:27 PM 1/2/2001 -0800, you wrote:
>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
>
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>--- 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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