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Re: New Ground for me Coil



Original poster: "Brian by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <ka1bbg-at-webryders-dot-net>

Hi, happy holidays to you also! sounds like you might want to raise the
secondary a little bit, and maybe some more tuning. sounds like your getting
real close to being "in tune" when the sparks just sit there and dance
around mystically! good luck brian f.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
To: <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 12:48 PM
Subject: New Ground for me Coil


> Original poster: "G by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<bog-at-cinci.rr-dot-com>
>
> Hello All,
>
> Happy Thanksgiving to the USA folks.
>
> Today I changed my coil ground from the house cold water pipe to an
> isolated 1.5" copper pipe driven 4 feet into wet ground. Distance of
> the wire is about the same, perhaps shorter. Now my coil is full of
> racing sparks.
>
> Should I take this as a sign that my output voltage has increased?
>
> Also, the streamers changed their appearance from random and jerky to
> smooth and writhing (I can see the banjo effect well now).
> Interesting stuff.
>
> Maybe this will cure the neighbors of their tv static. :) I believe I
> was grounded to the building electrical bus before.
>
> Happy day,
> Gregory
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