Re: which type for bleeder resistors?

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Original poster: "S & J Young by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <youngs-at-konnections-dot-net>

Larry,

Just string a bunch of quarter or half watt resistors in series.  Figure on
300 volts each.  Yes, it takes a bunch of soldering and some perfboard to
mount them, but the price is right.  You can buy resistors for less than one
cent apiece - try www.jameco-dot-com for example.

--Steve Young
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Subject: which type for bleeder resistors?


> Original poster: "Laurence Davis by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <meknar-at-hotmail-dot-com>
>
> 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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