Original poster: Terry Fritz <teslalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Hi,
"Hi Black Moon,
I think you will roast those 10W resistors. On my old 6" coil the 1K 50W resistors would get really hot at the 12/120 power level.
David E Weiss"
0.12^2*1000 = 14.4 watts (IF I didn't slip a decimal point.)
What was the real current in those resistors? Can't be very far from sinusoidal with all of the leakage reactance.
Ed
You are also discharging the filter caps each time the gap shorts.
http://hot-streamer.com/TeslaCoils/MyPapers/modact/Image165.gif
300pF at 21kV 120BPS....
E = 1/2 C V^2 x BPS = 29 watts!!
Cheers,
Terry