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Re: [TCML] Fried It !



Hi Miles,
I had something similar happen to me when I had my tiny coil running. Every time I would turn on the coil the sprinkler heads in my front yard would shutter up and down sputtering water pathetically. That's when I first started coiling and I had it all grounded through the green wire ground. Won't make that mistake again! I'm just grateful nothing else was affected. I've had recent trouble with RF flowing back through the wires into my computer. Fried some components on the motherboard... Ferrite beads fixed that issue though. I would scour eBay if I were you and find some snap on beads to go on all of your valuables. It's expensive, but not nearly as much as a new Plasma or Xbox or whatever there may be...
Brandon

On Nov 8, 2010, at 12:21 PM, Miles Mauldin <teslamiles@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi All
> I’m getting better at tuning and squeaking performance out of my SGTC.  Last 
> night I was able to get multiple 30” streamers into free air and strikes to a 
> grounded rod at nearly 40”.  I have been worrying about killing one of the 
> garage door openers, and household electronics and computers, but knock on wood 
> to date nothing has been affected.  That is until last night.  Sad and funny at 
> the same time, of all the things I worried over none of them were affected.  It 
> was my irrigation system controller that got fried.  I say funny, but it was not 
> until this morning that I discovered there was a problem when I saw a river of 
> water flowing down the street in front of my house.  Further inspection in the 
> back yard revealed 3 of my 8 water zones were running at the same time.  One of 
> them is for the waterfall and pond to keep it replenished during the hot 
> summers.  Needless to say, the pond was flooded.  I had to shut off the water 
> for the irrigation system at the street because the only thing I could get from 
> the control unit was a flashing “ERR”.  Good thing it Fall here and I don't 
> really need to water for a while.
> Do we just take our chances coiling?  Or does anyone have experience protecting 
> electronics near / around a TC? Maybe ferrite Cores like 
> http://leadertechinc.com/ferrishieldproducts.shtml?_kk=ferrite%20core&_kt=7dfff0ae-33b0-45b1-b704-1bf2fc1d08ec&gclid=CM6pnff3kaUCFRhg2godtWjaMg on
> any wires that would act like an antenna?
> Watching for the water bill.....
> Miles
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