Testing your Coil, sans coils.

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Original poster: "Ken Stevens by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <bluewaterdiver-at-earthlink-dot-net>

Is it possible to test your Tank Cap to: 

	1: Determine it's been built OK! 
	2: Make sure neither the bleeders nor caps won't go POP! 
And 	3: Set Safety Gaps, MOT gaps, be able to take measurements, and
neat 	   things like that.

All of this with out a primary attached (Jumpered), or if the Primary is
in circuit, no secondary. Basically PSU, Gaps, TC, and maybe Primary.

I don't want to make big sparks, but I'd like to know that the rest of
it is OK, before I go further.

What happens when you run a coil with no secondary? Do you erase all the
credit cards for 2 blocks??

Enquiring minds want to know!

Ken Stevens

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Tesla list [mailto:tesla-at-pupman-dot-com]
>Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 12:48 PM
>To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
>Subject: Re: How bad did I boo-boo??? MMC Resistor.
>
>Original poster: "Bert Hickman by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
><bert.hickman-at-aquila-dot-net>
>
>Hi Ken,
>
>Never fear, all is not lost! You should be able to make these work, but
>you'll probably need to use at least two resistors in series to get the
>power dissipation per resistor down to 1 watt or less. Since you
>probably won't have enough resistors to do this across each cap, try
>connecting capacitors in each series chain in parallel with the
matching
>caps in the other chains as shown below. Then use 2 (or more) of your 1
>Meg resistors, connected in series, across each parallel capacitor
>group. You'll still bleed the capacitors without smoking the resistors.
>
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>          | |     | |     | |     | |
>     --o--| |--o--| |--o--| |--o--| |-....
>       |  | |  |  | |  |  | |  |  | |
>       |       |       |       |
>       o-/\/\/-o-/\/\/-o-/\/\/-o-/\/\/-...
>       |       |       |       |
>       |  | |  |  | |  |  | |  |  | |
>     --o--| |--o--| |--o--| |--o--| |-....
>       |  | |  |  | |  |  | |  |  | |
>       |       |       |       |
>       |       |       |       |
>       |       |       |       |
>       |  | |  |  | |  |  | |  |  | |
>     --o--| |--o--| |--o--| |--o--| |-....
>          | |     | |     | |     | |
>
>     Note: Each resistor is 2-4 Meg ohms (total).
>
>Best regards,
>
>-- Bert --
>--
>Bert Hickman
>Stoneridge Engineering
>"Electromagically" (TM) Shrunken Coins!
>http://www.teslamania-dot-com
>
>
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>Tesla list wrote:
>> Original poster: "Ken Stevens by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
><bluewaterdiver-at-earthlink-dot-net>
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>> I grabbed and didn't look before I bought!!!
>>
>> I got 1M 1W Metal Film NTE resistors (Blue Body). Did I boo-boo or
can
>> they work? Do I NEED 10M's??
>>
>> Do I need to go back and plead stupidity??
>>
>> I should know better than to shop on my lunch break!!!! No time to
>> paruse!!!
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Ken Stevens
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