Re: Ready for First Smoke Test

• To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
• Subject: Re: Ready for First Smoke Test
• From: Richard Hull <hullr-at-whitlock-dot-com>
• Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 16:50:31 -0700

Tesla List wrote:
> 
> >From ccurran-at-execpc-dot-comFri Jul 26 11:42:38 1996
> Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1996 21:37:41 -0500
> From: Chuck Curran <ccurran-at-execpc-dot-com>
> To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> Subject: Ready for First Smoke Test
> 
> Hello Group:
> 
>        I enjoyed reading Richard Hull's comments
> about his wife's "contact" with Tesla sparks.  After I put my new
> grounding system in, which is two eight foot rods six feet apart with 6"
> wide aluminum sheet connecting them, I quickly showed my wife since the
> connection point is one rod sticking up next to a land scaping log by
> our drive.  While I was up north at my brothers cabin last week she cut
> the lawn and the grounding rod too!  Amazing what a Bolens 16 H.P. mower
> with a 48" deck can do to a ground rod and the blade sharpness.
> Actually little damage to either, but it did take some effort to
> straighten out the rod.
> 
> Chuck Curran

Chuck,

OOOPS!  I have opened a few grounds that way too until I burried the 
cable to the lab from the rods and surrounded the rod tops with 8" PVC 
schedule 80 pipe sticking up 10" out of the ground!


Richard Hull, TCBOR

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