Re: Dummy load

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Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <dhmccauley-at-spacecatlighting-dot-com>

You need to provide more information before we can answer your question:

1.  What is the voltage you plan on running at?

2.  Are you running a DC, AC, or pulsed load?

3.  Any other information???

Those Aluminum Heatsinked resistors are good for low voltage, but are very
poor at high voltage as there isn't much stand-off between the center lead
on the resistors
and the case of the resistor which is aluminum.

IMHO, I would never use those type resistors for any type of high voltage
resistive load.

Dan





 > Hi all,
 >
 > Maybe I'm being a bit out in left field with this one and knowing me it's
a
 > good possibility. Anyway, I have 40 Dale Aluminum 50K 50W resistors. If I
 > use individual heatsinks on each and possibly under oil to insulate each
 > case/heatsink from the others can I build a dummy load? I could make 4
 > strings of 10 then 2 paralleled strings in series would give me 500K total
 > resistance. Taps could be used to allow some degree of variability.
 >
 > Is this possible? Or am I off base with this one?
 >
 > Rick W.
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