Re: which type for bleeder resistors?

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

Hi Larry,

"I" just get 10Meg ohm 1/2 carbon film types.  Yageo 10MH  DigiKey #
10MH-ND   $13/1000 (they are almost free).

http://www.digikey-dot-com/scripts/us/dksus.dll?Criteria?Ref=88368&Cat=30802464

They are used over the voltage rating but they work fine.  If that worries
you, you can just use two in series.  I have a few thousand extra so write
me and I'll send you a bunch for free  (the price has gone up lately so
they run about 1.3 cents each :-)).  

terrellf-at-qwest-dot-net

Running about 1000 volts peak across each one is very safe.  "I" normally
go to 2000 Vpeak...

Cheers,

	Terry



At 05:36 PM 7/29/2002 +0000, you wrote:
>I just got zapped with 6kv (1 leg of a 15kv/30ma) while trying to dance arcs 
>off a glass of salt water.  orange/yellow arc.  ANYWAY. I'm wanting to build 
>an MMC for my coil for which I've blown holes in my PE cap.  billowing 
>clouds of smoke emminating from the tank it was in was the clue.
>
>I'm not sure which resistors to get for the bleeders.  i saw a faq by terry 
>that stated 10meg ohm, 1/2 watt.  searching the newark catalog yielded:
>
>mfg: IRC, stock# 96F3612 at 10M: price: 3.65 in qty of 1-24.
>desc: CGH Series High-voltage thick film resitors
>
>are these overkill, or just what I need?
>I've never had to price megohm resitors, but the price seemed high to me. 
>(the caps are cheaper than the resitors!?)
>
>larry d.
>
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