[BC] HV probes

[Thomas G. Osenkowsky]

It's a 999 Meg resistor (will not register on a Fluke 87).
The resistor is about 6 inches in length with about 3/8
inch diameter. The 1.1 Meg resistor shunts the low
end of the 999 Meg resistor to ground. The 8060A
has a specified input of >10,000 Meg, typically
80,000 Meg.

Tom Osenkowsky, CPBE

>   It's a simple voltage divider.
>   99 M reresistor in series with a 1 M, total 100 M, gives 10% of the
>   original voltage across the 1 M. If you try to measure it with a 5 K
>   meter, you'll read real low, because that 1 M isn't 1M anymore.
>   It's 1M in parallel with 5K.