I'm working on building a Tesla Coil and I wanted to measure it's actual output voltage from the secondary.
This seems like a really dumb question, frankly I'm embarrassed to ask, but are there voltage limits on resistors?
My thought was that I can build a voltage divider and connect it to the end of my secondary and use my multimeter to measure the voltage. But if it's around 15,000V I'm going to need really big resistors. What else can I do to measure the voltage? Turn ratios for an air core don't seem to be appropriate.
this is what I'm building:
http://www.easternvoltageresearch.com/audio_classe.html
This seems like a really dumb question, frankly I'm embarrassed to ask, but are there voltage limits on resistors?
My thought was that I can build a voltage divider and connect it to the end of my secondary and use my multimeter to measure the voltage. But if it's around 15,000V I'm going to need really big resistors. What else can I do to measure the voltage? Turn ratios for an air core don't seem to be appropriate.
this is what I'm building:
http://www.easternvoltageresearch.com/audio_classe.html