Re: ~Is this safe to test

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

Hi, Jonathon

YES!!

If you have a cap charged to 20000 volts and want to limit the current to
"only" 200 amps, a 100 ohm resistor (big one) will work perfectly!

Cheer's

        Terry


At 03:17 PM 2/16/2002 -0500, you wrote: 
>
> In a message dated 2/16/02 12:14:43 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> tesla-at-pupman-dot-com writes:
>
>
>>
>> There is nothing to limit the short circuit current from the capacitor.  You
>> would be charging the cap up to say 20,000 volts and then placing a dead
>> short
>> on it.  The current will be enormous in that case.  It would sound like a
>> machine gun.
>
>
>
> Hello, 
> Couldn't you put some resistance or something in,in place of the primary coil
> to test it?
> ---------------------------------------
> Jonathon Reinhart
> hot-streamer-dot-com/jonathon