Re: Tesla Coil Grounding

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Original poster: "Gerry Reynolds" <gerryreynolds-at-earthlink-dot-net> 

Hi Jim,

If you put a choke between the case of your transformer and mains safety
ground, you will probably want to put multiple chokes in series.  Each choke
has a self resonant frequency and becomes capacitive at higher frequencies.
Each additional choke could be designed with increasing self resonance.

Gerry R


 > Original poster: "Jim Lux" <jimlux-at-earthlink-dot-net>
 >
 > Now that I think about it, you don't even care if the core saturates (in
 > fact, this might be desirable) when a high current 60Hz fault occurs.  All
 > that would happen is that the impedance would be even lower, which is a
good
 > thing.  So, some suitably sized wire on almost any old core would probably
 > work, because the RF current should be low, and the flux in the core
 > likewise.
 >
 >