Re: best ground for tesla coils?

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Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <dhmccauley-at-spacecatlighting-dot-com>

I do, however right now I'm in the process of converting my website over
from Microsoft Front Page to Dreamweaver so once that is done, it will have
all the new
stuff on it.

Dan



 > Dan,
 >
 > Got any photos of that new coil?
 >
 > Terry Blake
 >
 > ----- Original Message -----
 > From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
 > To: <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
 > Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 6:53 PM
 > Subject: RE: best ground for tesla coils?
 >
 >
 >  > Original poster: "Mccauley, Daniel H by way of Terry Fritz
 > <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <daniel.h.mccauley-at-lmco-dot-com>
 >  >
 >  >
 >  > Just buy one of those $5.00 ground rods at Home Depot and hammer it
into
 > the
 >  > ground.  That more than enough ground
 >  > for most tesla coils.  I run my newest 15kVA coil with just one of
those
 > and
 >  > it works absolutely great.  No problems whatsoever.
 >  >
 >  > Dan
 >  >
 >  >
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 >  >
 >  >
 >  >   > >hello
 >  >   > >
 >  >   > >i was wondering whats the best ground for my tesla coil?
 >  >   > >at the moment we connected our tesla coil to the earth from
 >  >   > >the 220V main power.
 >  >   > >but i have some doubt if this is a good solution. because of
 >  >   > >disturbing other peopel who have their computer or somthing
 >  >   > >else connected to the same ground.
 >  >   >
 >  >   > Yes, very bad idea indeed, you might be puting up to 10v ac on that
 >  > ground.
 >  >   > While that may no seem like much, it is to devices that are
designed
 > to
 >  >   > only have say 10mv on there ground
 >  >   >
 >  >   > >whats better:
 >  >   > >to take a metall plate on the floor to make my own earth?
 >  >   > >how big should such a plate be?
 >  >   > Uh, no, you do not want a large metal plate in your room connected
to
 >  > your
 >  > tc
 >  >   >
 >  >   > >or, to put a metall stake into the earth in front of my house, and
 >  >   > >to link my teslacoil ground together whit this stake? to the
 > connection
 >  >   > >i would take a special emv cooper band.
 >  >   >
 >  >   > Best idea! tho copper bands are overkill, just like those
audiophiles
 > and
 >  >   > gold plated oxygen free mylar coated cables, we don't need 'leet'
 >  > wireing.
 >  >   > we just need wireing, skin effect is very limited at tc freqencys,
and
 >  >   > quartlengths are quite long so ground cable distance isent a big
 > issue.
 >  >   > just use some nice 15amp wire or mabey 20~30amp wire if your
paranoid.
 >  >   > might wanna get some insulation on it tho. with my crappy flyback
and
 >  > film
 >  >   > capsul tesla (and tent peg ground) i can get tiny sparks off my
ground
 >  > when
 >  >   > I touch it to metal objects
 >  >   >
 >  >   >
 >  >   > >or, to link my teslacoil together with the water pipe who is
 >  >   > >comming in my house? what's about gas pipe's?
 >  >   > Water and gas is bad idea. just use the nice long pole in the
ground
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 >  >   > >by tobias
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