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RE: Grounding a TC
The best place if you cant drive a stake is an exposed water pipe
preferibly the main becase it is already in the ground and has a lot of
area. you could hook it up to your kitchen sink intake I would think.
Brad Shelton
--- Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com> wrote:
> Original Poster: "Lau, Gary" <Gary.Lau-at-compaq-dot-com>
>
> >Original Poster: "p.c.w.r. notebaart"
> <p.notebaart-at-hccnet.nl>
> >Dear Sir,
> >Is it possible to connect the ground terminal of
> the secundairy coil to
> >the ground wire of the electrical 230 V of my home?
> It is not possible
> >to drive a stake into the ground because I am
> living on the second
> >floor.
> >
> >Peter.
>
> There is a great deal of controversy over this. I
> know that Ed Wingate does
> what you suggest with enviable results. It seems to
> me that there would be
> considerable inductance between a wall plug's
> ground pin and the true earth
> ground and that a large voltage would be developed
> across this inductance by
> the secondary current. How much this voltage
> diminishes the streamers is a
> matter of speculation. However, it would also seem
> to me that a voltage
> developed across the building's ground wires would
> be extremely unhealthy
> (i.e. dangerous) for appliances plugged in elsewhere
> in the building. Of
> course, this depends upon the power level of your
> coil, a very small one
> should have no problems at all.
>
> Regards, Gary Lau
> Waltham, MA USA
>
>
>
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