Then we would be in good shape using a 470K, 2 Watt resistor with 1000 Jolts applied to it in a series feed circuit... Most of the time there would be less than the full 1 KV anyway.
470,000 X 2 = 840,000 Square root of 840,000 is about 916 volts, so I guess it OCULD break the rule, but only if the circuit shorted out. Hardly overstressing, and WELL more than a "few" hundred volts. The trouble with making a general statement is that there is almost always some exception to the rule. On 30 Oct 2005 at 19:29, Brad Thompson wrote: > While we're in the neighborhood, other carbon-comp resistor specs list > the > maximum applied voltage (across the resistor's terminals) as equal > to (sqrt) (power * resistance) ***OR*** the maximum specified working > voltage.
