Re: The death of a classic

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Original poster: "Malcolm Watts by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <m.j.watts-at-massey.ac.nz>

Hi Barry, Finn, Terry,

On 14 Aug 2002, at 21:56, Tesla list wrote:

> Original poster: "B2 by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<bensonbd-at-boo-dot-net>
> 
> Hi Terry:
> 
> "I blew up this picture at:
> 
> http://hot-streamer-dot-com/temp/hotend-01.jpg
> 
> This sure looks like an internal resistor failure
> cheers,
> 
> Terry"
>  
> Is there any way to check one of the resistors to see the pattern of the
> resistive material on the ceramic core.  This sure looks the same way, that
> some of the high voltage MOX resistors used in a 300 KV Marx, looked.  The
> resistors were rated for high voltage but turned out to be unuseable for
> pulse work.  
> 
> Cheers,
> Barry

What are the values of the surrounding resistors? 
How did a pulsed application kill the MOX reistors Barry mentions?

Regards,
malcolm