RE: Household NEUTRAL is not really a return path

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Original poster: mileswaldron@xxxxxxxxxxx 

I am a little confused about this issue too. I am currently using my 
household breaker box ground as HV ground, plus I have pounded a 15 
foot long copper rod into my backyard that I attached to my water 
pipes using heavy wire, and use that for the secondary coil ground 
(RF ground?). Is this a good idea, or should I use my breaker box for 
HV ground and separate the Tesla Coil ground from that? Or should I 
join them all together and make a "super" gound, and run everything 
together into that?

Groundedly Confused,

Miles Waldron

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> Original poster: Yurtle Turtle
>
> Maybe he's talking about thee phase?
>
> Adam
>
> --- Tesla list wrote:
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> > Original poster: "Mccauley, Daniel H"
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > >PS.: in common household AC, the neutral is not
> > really a return path
> > >either, but a terminal to collect all three phases
> > and add them
> > >together. By definition, being neutral, the
> > neutral does not carry any
> > >current (beyond the untility pole, that is).
> >
> > Uh . . . no! The neutral *IS* the only return
> > path. All 115VAC
> > current flowing to your ligh ts,
> > appliances, and other 115VAC devices flows in both
> > the HOT and NEUTRAL.
> >
> > Dan
> >
> >
> >
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>