Re: RC filter resistor

["Albert Hassick" <uncadoc-at-xxxxxxxx> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-xxxxxxxxxx>)]

The light bulbs will work ok as a power resister and of course you will
get a lesser spark from  your coil if you dampen the output of your coil
through a set of resistors. But it will never give you the True
Khatru.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You can add and aplhL

On Sun, 05 Nov 2000 09:26:08 -0700 "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
writes:
> Original poster: "acmnovak" <acmnovak-at-email.msn-dot-com> 
> 
> Could a light bulb (>100 watts) be used as a power resistor in a RC 
> filter?
> They are made for heat and are redily avaiable most everywhere...
> The fact that power resistors heat up and are not easy to find in 
> the right
> values really kinda makes me wanna avoid the whole RC filter 
> situation.  A
> filter composed of two 100 watt lightbulbs, a safety gap, and a 
> bypass cap
> would be a cheap and easy way for one to protect a hard to 
> find/expensive
> xformer..
> Thanks
>     -Michael
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