Rf ground

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Original poster: "Scott Bogard" <teslas-intern@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Hello everybody,
    Here is a probably silly question.  What would the effect be of 
putting a capacitor or inductor in series, between the bottom of a 
secondary coil, and the earth.  From what I understand of "resonant 
circuits, assuming zero resistance, once it got rolling power would 
jump between the top load (capacitor plate "A") and the secondary 
(inductor), and would return between the earth (capacitor plate "B") 
and and the secondary via the RF ground.  I am not an electrical 
engineering major, so I do the best I can to understand this 
stuff.  I tried putting a capacitor (salt water cap, 1 pint mason 
jar) in my RF ground once, and the output was the same, except it 
needed re-tuning of the primary, but that particular coil would 
almost work without an RF ground as it was very small.  I'm just 
curious, what would happen.
Thank you much.
Scott Bogard.

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