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RE: Cap draining? and Toroid cunstruction

Original poster: "Duke, Ronn (CCI-San Diego CCC) by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <Ron.Duke-at-cox-dot-com>

Raven,

The going size for MMC resistors is ½ watt, 10 Meg ohms. Carbon or carbon
film is preferable (Terry sells them). Installing a resistor on each cap
will drain the caps in 2 to 3 seconds after power is cut. 

As for your second question, to make a quick and easy toroid as well as
functional, find yourself a couple of metal pie pans or deep dish pizza
pans,(depending on how big you want it). Put them together bottom to bottom.
Fasten them together using glue or double stick tape or ? I used pop rivets,
it makes it very secure. Once you have that together, get your dryer duct
and leave it in its compressed state. Put a bungee cord through it,(stretchy
cord with hooks on both ends), that's long enough to stretch around your
center disk. Stretch it around your center disk with it through the duct and
connect the hooks together. Carefully stretch out your dryer duct starting
at the middle and working around to the ends alternating until the two ends
of the duct meet. Once you get the duct all the way around, it will stay in
place because of the bungee cord. You can put some aluminum tape on the seam
to cover it and make it look better. I made mine in about 20 minutes.
To attach it to your secondary, simply have some sort of mounting bolt on
the secondary and drill a hole in the middle of your toroid. 

Keep on Coilin'

Sparky 

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	Subject:	Cap draining? and Toroid cunstruction

	Original poster: "raven0075 by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <raven0075-at-home-dot-com>

	What recommended resistor size would be used to drain an MMC at
19000 volts?
	
	Anyone have some really good examples of building a toroid out of
Dryer ducked
	and how to attach it to the top of the secondary.