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Re: [TCML] DANGER Ground wire Continued



I learned early in my ham radio days that ground rods are a poor and unreliable ground especially for RF. One test that I used to do for a ground rod was connect a 100 watt light bulb between the hot side of the house mains and the ground rod to see how bright it glowed. Not very scientific but I was often dismayed at how dimly it lit.

I always tied all grounds together in in order to keep everything at the same relative potential. I understand that here in the Tesla world there are other priorities that dictate a separate RF return to ground for the coil, but it doesn't seem very safe to me.

Charlie
K3YA


-----Original Message-----
From: Chris <carielles@xxxxxxx>
To: Tesla Coil Mailing List <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sat, Feb 13, 2010 7:09 pm
Subject: [TCML] DANGER Ground wire Continued


Thank you for your response, but thats a target. Im wondering about the dangers of touching the ground wire thats attached to the bottom of the secondary. I live in an apartment on the second floor. I want to run my ground wire out over my porch down to a ground rod outside, but im worried for the neighbors below me. I dont want them to go outside and see the wire, and think, "What the heck is that?" Then walk up and grab it. Have no choice if i want to run my little coil inside. All plastic plumbing in the building and I obviously dont want to use the outlet ground. Thanks 
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