Re: rf ground?

["Steve Bell" <steve-at-breakfix.demon.co.uk> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)]

Hi John,

It is not recommended to use conduit or any other piping (anything that is
possibly connected to the electrical ground and may run close to
live/neutral wires or phone lines) for the secondary coil ground, however,
it is often all that is available, and it can give good results.

A dedicated RF ground, as you mentioned, would be better for purely safety
and RF interference reasons but it may not result in better output.

Steve Bell (UK)


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Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2000 3:08 PM
Subject: rf ground?


> Original poster: "John Morawa" <morawaj-at-interaccess-dot-com>
>
>
> Hey everyone,
>
> I sent this msg out last Friday but never received any answers so I'm
trying
> one more time.
>
>
>
> Hey folks,
>
> I havent done any coiling in 10+ years.  Back then the largest system i
had
> was powered by a 15/60 NST.  At the time i just ran a long piece (15') of
> #18 stranded wire from the base of the secondary with the other end
clamped
> to any electrical conduit I could find.  It seemed to work fine.  I have
> been reading some posts in the archives about the secondary being a
> different ground.  An rf ground.  My question is this, was what i did a
> BADDDD thing?  Also, had i driven multiple pipes into the ground and
> interconnected them and used them as my secondary ground would i expect to
> get any improvement in discharge length?
>
>
> Thanks again,
> John M.
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>
>