In Reply to: RE: I Actually Measured the Voltage Sharing with Caps posted by Triode_Kingdom on July 24, 2014 at 07:28:11:
The newer ARRL handbook recommends against using voltage balancing resistors as they seem to cause more failures than they prevent.
According to the 2005 ARRL Handbook (page 17.9) "shunting resistors are generally not needed across diodes in series rectifier strings. In fact, shunt resistors can actually create problems because they can produce a low-impedance source of damaging current to any diode that may have reached avalanche potential."
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- Latest ARRL Handbook Recommends against the Resistors - Maxamillion 07:57:15 07/24/14 (4)
- RE: Latest ARRL Handbook Recommends against the Resistors - Triode_Kingdom 10:43:01 07/24/14 (3)
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