RE: which type for bleeder resistors?

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Original poster: "Mccauley, Daniel H by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <daniel.h.mccauley-at-lmco-dot-com>



Just be careful.  If you actually had a MMC cap attached, that zap could
prove lethal.

10meg 1/2watt ohm work fine.  Just use standard film resistors which are
about 10 for $0.50 at most places.  I use 10meg, 60kV ohmite OR19 series
which are about $8.00 apiece, but i got them at surplus.

Dan


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.