Re: Power factor correction capacitors for MOTs

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

Hi,

I blew mine up with it in the center of an extension cord playing way to 
close to the coil...  I think if you keep the meter down stream on the AC 
line far away from the coil it will be fine.  I don't think the AC line 
killed mine but rather static sparks (not streamers) from me grounding 
through the meter's display and buttons to ground.  The newer meters are a 
bit different too to fix some problem, so that may help.  I just buy two of 
them since they are cheap and pretty indispensable.  But if you are careful 
with them, I think they will be fine.

Cheers,

         Terry


At 11:31 PM 11/12/2004, you wrote:
>On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 17:25:42 -0700, Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com> wrote:
> > Original poster: "Ed Phillips" <evp-at-pacbell-dot-net>
> >
> > Haven't at least a couple of guys here succeeded in killing their
> > "KILL_A_WATT" trying to measure a TC?
> >
> > Ed
> >
> >
>
>I have not used my Kill-a-watt meter on my spark gap coils, but i have
>used it for SSTCs, DRSSTCs, VTTCs and NSTs.  Ive even accidentally
>overcurrented it with my VTTC (they are power hungry..) and all it did
>was flash on and off.  Handy meter, though it would be nice to have a
>5000W version ;-).
>
>Steve