RE: Bleeder resisters

["Neil Chambers" <Neil_Chambers-at-xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-xxxxxxxxxx>)]

Original poster: "Mike Harrison" <mike-at-whitewing.co.uk> 


>Of course almost any device will work in excess of its ratings, but
>you never know how much headroom you may or may not have.  Unless you
>know for sure that the resistors you are using have the required
>rating there will be some risk of failure. As bleeder resistors are to
>some extent safety-related, and the correct ones are not expensive in
>absolute terms, I see no good reason not to use ones with the correct
>rating. 
 
That makes sense, but I have not been able to find resisters rated at >1000V