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Re: Grounding my TC
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- Subject: Re: Grounding my TC
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- Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 21:55:51 -0600
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Original poster: Ed Phillips <evp@xxxxxxxxxxx>
"With smallish Tesla coils, like less than 1 kVa, it's usually ok to
use the mains house ground for a ground. "
I don't think that's a good idea. When operating a very small coil
using the "mains ground" I had a failure (short) of a line bypass
capacitor in my scope. Could be a coincidence but not necessarily. In
almost every home there's a lot of delicate stuff hooked to the line and
better safe than sorry.
Ed