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Discharging Capacitor
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From: gweaver [SMTP:gweaver-at-earthlink-dot-net]
Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 1998 6:27 AM
To: Tesla List
Subject: Re: Discharging Capacitor
If you connect your capacitor, primary coil and transformer all in series
the capacitor will discharge itself automatically through the series circuit
when the system is turned.
Gary Weaver
At 11:05 AM 2/4/98 -0600, you wrote:
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>From: Patrick J. Gustafson [SMTP:gustafpj-at-uwec.edu]
>Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 1998 7:01 PM
>To: Tesla List
>Subject: Discharging Capacitor
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>Hello all:
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>In order to adjust the primary coil after the TC has been running, one
>would prefer to discharge the capacitor(s) to eliminate the chance of
>becoming a human wire. I was wondering how others have accomplished
>this without damaging anything.
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>I am building a TC for the Physics Dept. here, and I have to add safety
>measures throughout the TC design in order to prevent any accidents from
>happening. You see, the physics instructors will be using the TC for
>demonstrations on magnetic fields, and who knows what instructors might
>do. So I figured I could use a solenoid to throw a contact, which goes
>through high resistance resistors (I have several hollow ceramic
>resistors rated at 100000 Ohms at 200W, generously given to me by the
>Dept.). I could series the resistors to get a current flow in the order
>of milliamps, which would work. But this is just one idea.
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>Oh, I have also seen boxes of old vacuum tubes in the E&M lab at the
>university, and was wondering what are the most common tubes used in
>Tesla work? (There's about a hundred different tubes just sitting
>there.) I'm sure they would sell them cheap if any are suitable for TC
>work.
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>Practicing Safe Coiling in Wisconsin
>Patrick Gustafson
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