RE: best ground for tesla coils?

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Original poster: "Mccauley, Daniel H by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <daniel.h.mccauley-at-lmco-dot-com>


Just buy one of those $5.00 ground rods at Home Depot and hammer it into the
ground.  That more than enough ground
for most tesla coils.  I run my newest 15kVA coil with just one of those and
it works absolutely great.  No problems whatsoever.

Dan





  > >hello
  > >
  > >i was wondering whats the best ground for my tesla coil?
  > >at the moment we connected our tesla coil to the earth from
  > >the 220V main power.
  > >but i have some doubt if this is a good solution. because of
  > >disturbing other peopel who have their computer or somthing
  > >else connected to the same ground.
  >
  > Yes, very bad idea indeed, you might be puting up to 10v ac on that
ground.
  > While that may no seem like much, it is to devices that are designed to
  > only have say 10mv on there ground
  >
  > >whats better:
  > >to take a metall plate on the floor to make my own earth?
  > >how big should such a plate be?
  > Uh, no, you do not want a large metal plate in your room connected to
your
tc
  >
  > >or, to put a metall stake into the earth in front of my house, and
  > >to link my teslacoil ground together whit this stake? to the connection
  > >i would take a special emv cooper band.
  >
  > Best idea! tho copper bands are overkill, just like those audiophiles and
  > gold plated oxygen free mylar coated cables, we don't need 'leet'
wireing.
  > we just need wireing, skin effect is very limited at tc freqencys, and
  > quartlengths are quite long so ground cable distance isent a big issue.
  > just use some nice 15amp wire or mabey 20~30amp wire if your paranoid.
  > might wanna get some insulation on it tho. with my crappy flyback and
film
  > capsul tesla (and tent peg ground) i can get tiny sparks off my ground
when
  > I touch it to metal objects
  >
  >
  > >or, to link my teslacoil together with the water pipe who is
  > >comming in my house? what's about gas pipe's?
  > Water and gas is bad idea. just use the nice long pole in the ground
  >
  > >by tobias
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