Re: Dead MMC. was: AAAA! My coil...

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Original poster: "Black Moon by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <black_moons-at-hotmail-dot-com>


Just a note.. standard size resistors at 1/4 watt, not 1/2 watt


>At 9000 VAC, the peak voltage is 12728 volts.  Six caps are rated at 12000 
>volts.  So you are a little over.  However, I would not worry about it at 
>all.  Six caps per string should be fine.  If you are using 10M resistors, 
>they are at their power rating (0.45 watts) so no problem there either.
>However, the resistors may get a little warm but spacing them should keep 
>them from heating the caps.  If you wanted to be real safe, you could use 
>two resistors in series per cap.
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>Cheers,
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>         Terry
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>>-Chris