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    Normal resistors for High Voltage application

    Hi, What would happen if i used a regular resistor for voltages up to 10kv? I plan on using two of them for a high voltage probe (voltage divider) and I don't want to go out and buy/make high voltage resistors. Wouldn't the current want to flow through the wire rather than arc through the...
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    Substituting a transistor for a MOSFET in a flyback driver

    Here's the classic circuit im using: It's made to create high voltage AC from DC. I've killed a few transistors with overvoltage using this circuit and because of that im considering using a mosfet to take the higher power and maybe get better performance. Before i go out and buy a mosfet...
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    Identifying circuit component (schematic)

    You can tell what I'm trying to make, but I don't know what those up-arrows resemble. I circled them in red. What do they mean?
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    What's the "danger zone" for tesla coils?

    First off, I know that tesla coils (at least as far as I know) operate at frequencies too high to pierce the body and go through the heart etc. But if somehow you got shocked by one with a much lower frequency, I'm asking how dangerous that would be. If 2 tesla coils had a transformer ratio of...
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    How exactly does a capacitor charge?

    So, I have a leyden jar and I notice that while I charge it, it seems to increase with voltage as well as current (the current part is expected). I charge it using electrostatics, so maybe that's the confusion... Anyway, I didn't think that capacitors charged that way. Don't they retain the same...
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