Re: AAAA! My coil is starting an appetite for resistors! was: First light...Mixed Emotions

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Original poster: "Black Moon by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <black_moons-at-hotmail-dot-com>

1/4 watt resistor insulation is poor at best, hell, iv found some that had 
the gold band a deadshort to the lead next to it, its very easy to cause 
arc breakout though the side, give em room.






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>Subject: AAAA! My coil is starting an appetite for resistors! was:  First 
>light...Mixed Emotions
>Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 07:47:05 -0700
>
>Original poster: "Chris Roberts by way of Terry Fritz 
><twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <quezacotl_14000000000000-at-yahoo-dot-com>
>
>
>Hi again,
>
>Yes! It works! (kind of) We were able to get it running for a while. All 
>that was needed to stop those racing sparks was to raise the secondary a 
>half an inch or so. By the way, thanks to everyone who suggested it. We 
>were getting about 20" sparks when after about a half hour of playing 
>around with it (it wasn't running the entire time) we noticed a spark on 
>the bottom of the mmc. Not wanting to kill our new capacitors we took it 
>in for the night. It wasn't untill this morning that I noticed that one of 
>the bleeder resistors had been completly carbonized! There were scorch 
>marks underneath it also, but I didn't pay much attention to it thinking 
>that the resistor may have just blown by itself. So I just put a couple of 
>strips of electircal tape over the mark, and soldiered a new resistor on. 
>However, when we blew our second resistor this night, it became apparent 
>that the resistor is probably arcing to the cap on the other side of the 
>perfboard. So is there anyway to stop ! this? Sigh - fix one problem and 
>another one pops up...
>
>
>-Chris
>
>"Learn from the mistakes of others. You won't live long enough to make all 
>of them yourself."-unknown