Re: Bleed resistors

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Original poster: robert & june heidlebaugh <rheidlebaugh-at-desertgate-dot-com> 

Carbon composition are best but are getting hard to find. Carbon film are
second best. Unless rated for high voltage the metal film are not good. I
have paid 7$ each for high voltage rated metal film resistors so I don't
think you would want to go that route.
   Robert   H
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 > From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
 > Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 16:20:54 -0700
 > To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
 > Subject: Bleed resistors
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 > Resent-Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 12:13:55 -0700
 >
 > 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.
 >
 >