Re: Help!!!, Building my first Coil Recomondations

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Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>

Hi,

One small correction.

At 11:02 PM 3/20/2001 -0500, you wrote: 
>
> Hey Raven, 
>
> Welcome! I have a fairly good knowledge of Tesla Coils, so I may be able to 
> As for resistors across the caps, it is preferable as it balances out the 
> voltage between caps and bleeds off any residual charge in less than 10 
> seconds. A typical value for these resistors is 1/4 watt, 10 megohms (these 
> are cheap, ~ 1 cent apiece). 


I actually recommend 1/2 watt not 1/4 watt resistors.  Specifically part number
10MH-ND from DigiKey.  Yageo Carbon film types that are known to stand up to
2kV in our use.

Cheers,

        Terry