Is that carbon film or carbon composition?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alan B. Pearce" <A.B.Pearce@rl.ac.uk>
To: "Microcontroller discussion list - Public." <piclist@mit.edu>
Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 10:57 AM
Subject: Re: [EE] Carbon film vs Metal film resistors


> >If I recall....carbon film is a better choice in high
>>voltage applications, less chance of arcing?  That
>>thought was from a design I worked on some 10 years ago,
>>where the application was high voltage RF, and the
>>guy doing the design specifically put in carbon
> 
> Had that in Cockroft-Walton (sp?) multipliers for instruments in space.
> carbon resistors specified for arc-over reasons.
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