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Re: Rock ground
Subject: Re: Rock ground
Date: Thu, 05 Jun 1997 04:53:56 GMT
From: jim.fosse-at-bjt-dot-net (Jim Fosse)
To: Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
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On Wed, 04 Jun 1997 07:30:44 -0500, Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>, you
wrote:
>Subject: Rock ground
> Date: Tue, 03 Jun 1997 03:37:22 -0400
> From: "Kevin M. Conkey" <teslacoil-at-mindspring-dot-com>
> To: Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
>References: 1
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>
>I live in Mi where the grounding rods in the ground are no problem. What
>would one do for a good Tesla system ground if you lived in Arizona? The
>ground there is hard rock (no basements there!).
>
Kevin,
The same "ground" that I used as a "Ham" radio operator in the
HI-desert of Southern California, where I lived on-top-of ~5000' of
dry sand. Use a counterpoise -- a large metallic object as a ground.
Typically, this consists of many (16 or more) 1/4 wavelength wires
radiating out from your ground point. (this works well for the ham
bands of 40- meter wavelengths (7,000+ kcs;) but might be a bit large
for TC frequencies: 300/0.1mHz -> 3/4km)
Regards,
jim
p.s. I couldn't resist the kilocycle per second units of frequency in
spite of my admiration of Herr Hertz;)