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Originally Posted by powerking
NoPegs,
My math should be correct. The original Canned-Ohm resistor sees a TOTAL power dissapation of ~~ 7.5W. Therefore if you put 5 7.5K-ohm 3W resistors in series they are each dissapating about 1.3W @500V end-to-end. And I used metal oxide 5% ones, not metal film (not that critical for the leakage tests).
Tom (PK)
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Argh! You're right. "100v each" at 13.4mA is 1.34W... Next thing I know I'll screw up my zip-code!
At least if I screwed this up in the past my error was on the safe side of the equation instead of coming up short(ed).
