RE: RF ground

[Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>]

I remember someone had another trick in a long lost post...  Just get a T
fitting and a pipe cap deal from the hardware store and make a garden hose
fitting that will allow the garden hose water to go into to top of the pipe
from the side and flow out the far end.  Then you will have a powerful
water flow at the business end that should help to gnaw through anything
but rock...  You may not even have to pound such a water drill...

Cheers,

	Terry


At 04:08 PM 7/19/00 -0700, you wrote:
>
>I made a collar for my cheap ($9.95) pneumatic hammer. It fits around the
>bit and into the end of 1/2" hard-copper pipe. With this setup I've been
>able to drive the 1/2" hard-copper pipe into just about anything I could get
>a copper clad steel ground rod into. And the cost is about 1/5.
>
>One trick - Dig a small hole where you want the rod and keep it filled with
>water while hammering. Don't know if it's lubrication, liquefaction or both
>at work but it sure helps...
>
>Brian
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Tesla list [mailto:tesla-at-pupman-dot-com]
>Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2000 3:26 PM
>To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
>Subject: Re: RF ground
>
>
>Original poster: Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>
>
>Hi Pholp,
>
>	Where I live, there is a rock solid layer of clay and rocks about 4
>feet
>down.  I pound the darn thing with a sledge hammer and all my might really
>hard till it gets to the point I have to give up.  I then saw off the extra
>rod stiking up and call in good :-))
>
>Cheers,
>
>	Terry
>
>At 12:23 PM 7/19/00 -0700, you wrote:
>>I got a question for all you people that use pipes (which is probably most 
>>of them): I live in Lousiana and it's usually very wet here, but I still 
>>don't see how you can hammer like an 8 foot pipe all the way into the 
>>ground! Do you just get like a sledge hammer or something?
>>
>>
>>>From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
>>>To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
>>>Subject: RE: rf ground?
>>>Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 18:15:11 -0600
>>>
>>>Original poster: "sundog" <sundog-at-timeship-dot-net>
>>>
>>>Hi! I didn't remember seeing it, bet here's IMHO :) I use a 8' long 1"
>>>copper pipe hammered into the ground.  It works great for me, and pulls
>>>around 90-100v from a 110 line on the multimeter.  It dropped to 58v
>during
>>>our drought, but still worked fine for my coil.  Using the rods you sunk 
>>>may
>>>or may not give better performance.  You may need to water them down a bit
>>>1/2 ah hour or so before running it.  That may help performance some.
>>>   As for using the electrical conduit...*shudder*  Yep, that's regarded
>as 
>>>a
>>>Bad Thing(tm).That introduces RF into your house ground.  Good way to
>>>possibly zap your tv, vcr, microwave, etc.  And beware the garage door
>>>opener too.  They seem to be a common fatality of garage coiling.
>>>									Hope
>it helps!
>>>
>Sundog
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: Tesla list [mailto:tesla-at-pupman-dot-com]
>>>Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2000 10:08 AM
>>>To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
>>>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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