Common sense tells us the larger an object, the more heat it can
dissipate.
If you have two capacitors with equal ESR, and one has a much larger
surface area, the larger one will be able to dissipate more power with
less temperature rise.
That is why a larger heatsink runs cooler. Sometimes people forget that
in their zest to be "helpful".
The equalizing resistors should be selected to equalize the voltage, so
you really have to know the leakage resistance tolerance of the
capacitors to pick the correct resistor.
The resistor should "swamp out" leakage tolerances. In general as low a
value as pratical is best because it insures more equal voltage division
even if one capacitor is more or less leaky than the rest.
73 Tom
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