Re: coil w/o ground??? how come? :-o

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• Subject: Re: coil w/o ground??? how come? :-o
• From: BunnyKiller <bigfoo39-at-idt-dot-net> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)
• Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 20:13:33 -0600
• Approved: twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net
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Tesla List wrote:

> Original Poster: Leto Tokarev <leto-at-irisz.hu>
>
> hi!
>
> my first coil is up and firing :)
> its a pretty small one, but it works. today i noticed something strange -
> i forget to connect the ground when i turned it on, and there was no
> difference at all!!!



yes    most definately because of the size.....   and yes i did ONCE forget to
secure the ground to the bottom of my 8" coil running on 4 NSTs at 15KV at
.030 amps each....
( grand total  15KV -at- .120 amps)    talk about a major suprize...   all sorts
of kickbacks to the transformers and to the control panel via the safety gaps.
Lucky enuf i shut it down and didnt cause any damage to the NSTs.   Since i
now have a pig to power the coil  I most definately make sure the secondary
ground is in place ( as with everything else) , that one incedent was enuf to
learn from.


Scot D

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