Re: wiring for functionality or design

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Original poster: Steve Conner <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

>not for my
>personal safety, but those itchy fingers of a 15 month old

If you make sure the power is disconnected and all capacitors are 
discharged, any arrangement of wiring is "safe" to touch. (I assume 
you're not trying to make a coil that can safely be prodded by a 
toddler while it's operating, which is a far more worrying prospect.)

So rather than worrying about how to arrange the wiring, I would 
worry about making double sure the caps discharge by adding bleed 
resistors or similar. This has recently been discussed on the list in 
some detail, and we agreed that ordinary AC charging coils already 
have a discharge path through the transformer secondary, but bleed 
resistors add another path for redundancy. It can't hurt to put a 
shorting clip across the cap terminals either, when the coil is just 
sitting around.

Then you can worry about other stuff like making sure your coil has 
no sharp edges, is f ully chewable, etc.

Steve Conner
http://www.scopeboy.com/