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Default Safely testing 22 kV capacitors

On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 21:36:18 -0600, Jon Elson wrote:
Ignoramus27088 wrote:

Ian, would you or anyone have any idea if what I have is HV resistors?


They are blue, about 3 inches long, and are marked VICTOREEN MOX-3 12
MEG.


Yup, that's the cream of the crop! I can't give you ratings off the
top of my head, but a few of them in series should definitely handle
10 KV.


Cool. They came from a radar test set. It actually had a 5kV DC power
supply (xfmr plus bridge rectifier), but, alas, I sold the
rectifier.

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