Safety gap resistor?

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Original poster: "The Big Giant Kevin by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <neo4s-at-hotmail-dot-com>

>Do you current limit your primary to keep the discharge current from
damaging your cap?
>I have NEVER seen a cap destroyed by a safety gap yet. I HAVE however
seen many caps go to the great beyond for the lack of a safety gap!
>The first question I ask someone who has just blown a capacitor is "were 
>you running a safety gap on the cap?", and almost invariably the answer is 
>no. I personally will use a safety gap every time!



Someone please straighten me out on this! It makes since to use a current 
limiting resistor for the MMC caps, but... WHERE should I put the resistor? 
Are we talking about the resistors in the Terry filter (that I am using), or 
should there be another resistor in series with the cap gap, or a resistor 
in series with the primary coil? And if so, WHAT value and wattage resistor 
should I use? Save my caps! Kevin

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