Re: which type for bleeder resistors?

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Original poster: "Ben McMillen by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <spoonman534-at-yahoo-dot-com>

Hi all, 
  Anyone know where I might be able to find 25meg resistors
for a bleeder? I've looked around for quite a while and
came up with nothing.. :-/

Coiling in Pittsburgh
Ben McMillen

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