Broomfield, Co, USA I appreciate the offer, but I think I have other issues to solve before I need that. They must have a lot of fun in that shop! Resistance wire wouldn't bug me, it wouldn't be enough to worry about given the resistor divider is (oddly enough) 1,111 megohms. On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 9:57 AM, Denny Esterline wrote: > Where are you located? Several ideas, but some of them are region specifi= c. > > For an experimental hunk of spark plug wire, I'd probably be looking for = a > junk yard. That would most likely be resistance wire- typical resistance > values are 3-12k per foot. Which may or may not be a problem in your > application. > > At work, there's a division of the company the routinely works on high > voltage transmission and distribution equipment. Let me poke around Monda= y > and I may be able to find you an offcut of something and mail it to you. = In > this case, the problem will be finding something small enough - they > routinely work with 1000 mcm (conductor one inch in diameter) > > -Denny > -- > http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > --=20 http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .