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Thanks for the response. It is 5kV DC and pulses are happening every half second. I have a zener diode, could I place that in series instead of the 1N4148? My plan is to feed the 5V into a microcontroller (Arduino) and then use the microcontroller to sense whenever there is a fault in the...

Hi all, I am trying to reduce a pulsing voltage (coming from an electric fence charger) of 5kV down to 5V. I already tried using a voltage divider, but the voltage is coming out very inconsistently—anywhere from 7V to 170V. I found the schematic attached (from a thesis paper) but I'm not too...