Re: RF Ground, House Ground, Ground....

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Original poster: "Steven Ward by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <srward16-at-hotmail-dot-com>




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>Subject: RF Ground, House Ground, Ground....
>Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2002 08:12:53 -0600
>
>Original poster: "Matt Woody Meyer by way of Terry Fritz 
><twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <meyerml-at-stolaf.edu>
>
>Just for clarification sake, I'm curious if there's any major difference
>between
>the RF ground that you're all using and mine.
>
>My ground is simply a long copper tube driven a good 6-8" in very moist
>soil.  My
>protection filter and my secondary are grounded to seperate tubes, and then 
>a
>discharge rod (long wooden stick with a nail in the end of it wired to
>ground) is
>grounded to a third (Discharge rod used for discharging coil after
>operation and
>also for measurement purposes (never manually held near coil while in
>operation)).
>
>Is this an appropriate RF ground, or should I be doing something else?
>
>Thanks,
> ><>Matt
>
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>Matt "Woody" Meyer                  St. Olaf College Physics Major


I dont think that 6-8" is nearly enough.  Im cutting it short with 2 feet 
with my RF gnd, and i have 4 rods in the ground.  My secondary never arcs to 
my primary at the base, so that is a good sign. I always thought that people 
put them in about 5feet or so into the ground.  I hope that you are not 
running a large coil off of this small RF ground.

Steve Ward.