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Originally Posted by timmy
I’m going to put the single 66meg resistor in but if the resistors I had put in are just ordinary 22meg 2 watt resistors then is it safe to say they were passing excessive voltage to ground. After all there is 4-6 kv on them.
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Reading that I don't think you understand how ohms law or resistor voltage ratings work. The same 6KV will be across those 3 resistors regardless of their voltage rating. Resistors don't pass voltage, they pass current and that too wouldn't necessarily change with voltage rating.
The voltage rating on the resistors is the maximum Voltage that you can put on the terminals and expect voltage to not cause arcing across the terminals....If it arcs it probably will do so noticably, and if it arcs it will pass current NOT voltage.