Question on bleed off resistor

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Original poster: "Timothy Myers by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <tjmyers-at-nortelnetworks-dot-com>


I have a single .02MFD (80KVDC) capacitor I will be connecting to a 7500/60 
NST as part of a tesla coil tank circuit.  The output of the transformer is 
540 Watts.

My question is, what size resistor can I safely get away with to bleed off 
the charge in the capacitor?  I have 3 or 4 500 Ohm 100 Watt resistors 
lying around I would like to make use of.

Thanks in advance,

Tim M.