first coil

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Original poster: Matthew Flannery <mflannery-at-Treb-dot-com> 

Hey y'all

I'm about to start building my first coil and I have a few questions... (bet
you never heard that one, huh? *grin*)

What kind of wire can I use to wire the main components together?  Can I use
regular 10ga. solid copper wire?  I have two 15kV 30mA transformers for my
power supply.

I have 22 .22uF capacitors for the capacitor bank that I'm gonna string
together in series.  I was wanting to use 10meg 1/2w resistors but I can
only find 10meg 1/4w resistors.  Will the 1/4w resistors work to blead off
the charge in the capacitor bank if wired in parallel to each capacitor?

Once I get these answered I'll be able to start working on putting all the
components together.  Any info would be greatly appreciated.  BTW, I'm in
metro Atlanta so if there are any local coilers around that would want to
hang out at some point, just holler...

Matthew