Re: Classroom Projects with a TC?

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Original poster: Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-twfpowerelectronics-dot-com>

At 11:33 PM 1/9/2004, you wrote:
>Greetings All
>........
>
>And a technical safety question.  Do we need to make sure that the 
>capacitor circuit is completely discharged prior to touching the unit? If 
>so, how do we accomplish this?  The cap circuit is made from 15 panasonic 
>ac pulse capacitors.

Check to see if there is a resistor (10Mohms at 1/2 watt) wired across each 
capacitor.  If so, that will drain the capacitor charge safely in about 10 
seconds.

The resistors are like those on the underside of the capacitor here:

http://hot-streamer-dot-com/TeslaCoils/MMCInfo/mmcinfo.htm

Cheers,

         Terry



>Thanks in advance for all your professional help and advice.
>Andrew and Garry