Re: Bleed resistors

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Original poster: Mark Broker <mbroker-at-thegeekgroup-dot-org> 

The last time I was in Radio Shack looking for electronics parts I found 
10Meg 1/2W resistors in their boxes.  Go with the standard carbon film 
resistors and stay away from metal film resistors, which don't tolerate 
high voltages very much.  But I see Terry has offered to send you some, so 
I guess this post is 99% informational ;)

We should start shipping bleeder resistors with cap orders.....

Mark Broker
Chief Engineer, The Geek Group


On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 16:20:54 -0700, Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com> wrote:

>Original poster: Bob81818-at-aol-dot-com Hello all, i'm lookin for 10 bleed 
>resistors... all the MMCs i seen use the 10Mohm 1/2watt resistors, so i 
>dont really have any concerns about that, but my question is the type, i 
>seen carbon composition, metal film glaze or something or other, and 
>carbon film... the carbon film seem to be the cheapest, and i was 
>wondering whats the best or worst to get. I'm planning on bugging the guys 
>at radio shack to see if they could order some for me, if that didnt work 
>i was gonna use digi key to order them. If any one of you guys have some 
>spares sittin around and would like to sell them to me, that'd be great 
>too, please contact me off the list if you'd like. I hope everyone 
>understood my rambling, the only thing i was asking was where could i get 
>10 10meg ohm .5 watt bleed resistors for a 16-20kv MMC. Thanks everyone 
>for the help, sorry if i'm a bother.