Re: do i need more caps for my pt coil?

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Original poster: Yurtle Turtle <yurtle_t-at-yahoo-dot-com> 

What kind of resistors do you have? I bought cheap
ones and also paid the price.

http://www.hot-streamer-dot-com/adam/disasters.htm

Adam

--- Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com> wrote:
 > Original poster: Beans45601-at-aol-dot-com
 >
 > I am currently running my pt coil with a 14.4 KV
 > 1.5KVA with a 3450 RPM 6"
 > disk, with a 8 electrodes. MY cap system is 2
 > strings of 11 .15UF at 2000
 > volts each. Last night, I was running my coil, and
 > one of my resistors
 > blew, and the cap it was across was hot (this cap
 > was on the end of a
 > string). Am I overvolting my caps? Or is this just
 > one of things that happen?
 >
 > thanks
 > Adam
 >
 >