RE: ...sounds totally newbie, but...

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Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>

Hi Jim,

At say 250kHz we get about 127k of reactance from a 5pF cap.  Your probably 
right, the 200k resistor should do fine as an approximate load.  Be 
interesting to see if the resistor will arc across the outside ;-)  It is 
also wire wound so there is some inductance, but probably small compared to 
the secondary inductance.  Let me know if anyone wants to try and I'll pack 
it up and send it.

Cheers,

         Terry

At 04:10 PM 1/31/2003 -0800, you wrote:
>But, from a load standpoint, the C isn't in the picture... 
>ideal/lossless/etc..
>
>the 220K is the entire loss mechanism..
>
>And, of course, the original request was for something that could be used 
>as a dummy load in place of the secondary, so you need to reflect the 
>"spark load" back to the primary, hence the 100 or so ohms
>
>At 05:04 PM 1/31/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>>Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>
>>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I have some foot long 200K power resistors.  But I think you also need a 
>>say 5pF cap in series too that needs to take like 250kV!!  If anyone 
>>wants to experiment, I would be happy to donate the resistor part.
>>
>>Cheers,
>>
>>         Terry