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Desktop Coil ground? (fwd)
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Subject: Desktop Coil ground? (fwd)
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From: Tesla List <tesla@stic.net>
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Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 01:59:08 -0600
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From: Rick Holland[SMTP:rickh@ghg.net]
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Sent: Monday, January 19, 1998 12:36 PM
To: Tesla List
Subject: Re: Desktop Coil ground? (fwd)
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 08:27:36 -0800 (PST)
> From: baumann@proton.llumc.edu
> To: tesla@pupman.com
> Subject: Desktop Coil ground?
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<SNIP>
What is a problem is how to ground the beast.
> The instructor is not allowed to do little things like pound 8ft rods
> into the ground outside the class.
<SNIP>
> Michael Baumann Optivus Technology Inc.|Loma Linda University Medical Center
> San Bernardino, California. (909)799-8308 |Internet: baumann@llumc.edu
I would recommend a counter-poise. This would be a fair sized area of
metal (say steel sheet or chicken wire) on the floor a short distance
from the coil. This would act like a ground in that it would dissipate
the current rapidly over a large area. I have also read of a
"star-burst" type of arrangement with a central connection point from
which many wires or rods radiate in a full 360 degrees. This would also
be a flat arrangement that lies on the floor. Either should be adequate
for a small coil.
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Rick Holland
The Answer is 42.