Re: Desktop Coil ground? (fwd)

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Subject: Re: Desktop Coil ground? (fwd)
From: Tesla List <mod1-at-pupman-dot-com>
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 12:26:34 -0700 (MST)
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Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 12:36:04 -0600
From: Rick Holland <rickh-at-ghg-dot-net>
To: Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
Subject: Re: Desktop Coil ground? (fwd)

Tesla List wrote:
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> Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 08:27:36 -0800 (PST)
> From: baumann-at-proton.llumc.edu
> To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> Subject: Desktop Coil ground?
> 
<SNIP>
 What is a problem is how to ground the beast.
> The instructor is not allowed to do little things like pound 8ft rods
> into the ground outside the class.
<SNIP>
> Michael Baumann  Optivus Technology Inc.|Loma Linda University Medical Center
> San Bernardino, California. (909)799-8308 |Internet: baumann-at-llumc.edu

I would recommend a counter-poise. This would be a fair sized area of
metal (say steel sheet or chicken wire) on the floor a short distance
from the coil. This would act like a ground in that it would dissipate
the current rapidly over a large area. I have also read of a
"star-burst" type of arrangement with a central connection point from
which many wires or rods radiate in a full 360 degrees. This would also
be a flat arrangement that lies on the floor. Either should be adequate
for a small coil.
-- 

	Rick Holland

	The Answer is 42.