Re: ~Is this safe to test

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Original poster: "Cory Roussel by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <imcuddlycory-at-yahoo-dot-com>


--- Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com> wrote:
> Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>
> 
> Hi, Jonathon
> 
> YES!!
> 
> If you have a cap charged to 20000 volts and want to
> limit the current to
> "only" 200 amps, a 100 ohm resistor (big one) will


I personally recomend a heating element from a stove
as a high power resistor...  I have 4 from a stove i
scrapped, but i do beleive you would be able to get
one from a local appliance repair place either used or
as a replacement....

Later,

Cory Roussel





> work perfectly!
> 
> Cheer's
> 
>         Terry
> 
> 
> At 03:17 PM 2/16/2002 -0500, you wrote: 
> >
> > In a message dated 2/16/02 12:14:43 PM Eastern
> Standard Time,
> > tesla-at-pupman-dot-com writes:
> >
> >
> >>
> >> There is nothing to limit the short circuit
> current from the capacitor.  You
> >> would be charging the cap up to say 20,000 volts
> and then placing a dead
> >> short
> >> on it.  The current will be enormous in that
> case.  It would sound like a
> >> machine gun.
> >
> >
> >
> > Hello, 
> > Couldn't you put some resistance or something
> in,in place of the primary coil
> > to test it?
> > ---------------------------------------
> > Jonathon Reinhart
> > hot-streamer-dot-com/jonathon
> 
> 
> 
> 


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